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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF HENRIETTE A CELADON GLAZED CONG FORM PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF RICHARD
AND PAUL G. ECKER ‘TRIGRAM’ VASE LEHMAN GRAY
GUANGXU MARK AND PERIOD
A LARGE ‘DEHUA’ DISH A ‘DEHUA’ FIGURE OF GUANYIN
17TH CENTURY modeled after the archaic jade prototype, the QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
body of square section rising from a short
robustly potted, the shallow rounded sides straight circular foot to a tapering circular nely modeled in a pose of ‘royal ease’, adorned
thinning towards the rim, supported on a short neck with a lipped rim, molded with the ‘Eight in loose robes and a single-strand beaded
foot, covered overall with an even creamy-white Trigrams’ to each of the four sides, covered necklace, the hair swept up in a chignon with two
glaze, wood stand (2) overall in a lustrous pale sea-green glaze, the knotted plaits falling over the shoulders, the left
Diameter 11⅝ in., 29.6 cm base with a six-character mark in underglaze arm holding a ruyi scepter and leaning on a tripod
blue, wood stand (2) armrest, the back impressed with a double-gourd
PROVENANCE Height 10⅞ in., 21.6 cm seal reading He Chaozong
Frank Caro & Co., New York, 4th January 1985, Height 8½ in., 21.6 cm
and thence by descent. PROVENANCE
Collection of Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870- Compare with a similar example illustrated in
$ 1,000-1,500 1965), New York (by repute). P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, London, 1969, pl.
144A and from the author’s collection; and a
⋩ᶫᶾ䲨ġġġ⽟⊾䘥慱⣏䚌 $ 3,000-5,000 Guanyin signed He Chaozhong, with similar facial
expression but hooded, formerly in the J.M. Hu
㶭⃱䵺ġġġ䰱曺慱ℓ⌎䲳䏖⺷䒞 Collection, included in An Exhibition of Te Hua
˪⣏㶭⃱䵺⸜墥˫㫦 Porcelain, Art Gallery, Chinese University of Hong
Kong, 1975, cat. no. 77, and sold at Christie’s New
York, 15th September 2009, lot 408.

$ 4,000-6,000

㶭⋩ḅᶾ䲨ġġġ⽟⊾䘥慱奨枛⛸⁷
˪ỽ㛅⬿˫ầ㫦

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