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876 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF RICHARD LEHMAN
40 SOTHEBY’S GRAY

A ‘DEHUA’ FIGURE OF GUANYIN AND CHILD
17TH / 18TH CENTURY

the seated bodhisattva holding a child, wearing long owing
robes open at the chest revealing a beaded necklace, the hair
neatly parted and pulled back above the serene face, and
falling in two knotted tresses onto the shoulders, all supported
on a pierced rockwork base with a book on a pedestal at the
side
Height 12 in., 30.5 cm
Compare a similar example in the Hickley Collection, illustrated
in Rose Kerr and John Ayers, Blanc de Chine: Porcelain from
Dehua, Chicago, 2002, pl. 8; and another illustrated in Robert
H. Blumen eld, Blanc de Chine: The Great Porcelain of Dehua,
Berkeley, 2002, pl. 65B.

$ 10,000-15,000
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876

A TURQUOISE AND AUBERGINE GLAZED
ZHENWU SHRINE
17TH CENTURY

the bearded deity seated inside, a turtle entwined with a snake
underfoot, a guardian standing to either side of the portal
below applied dragons trailing down from a lintel in high relief,
a smaller gure in the alcove above, all raised on a waisted
pedestal, the lower section of the back with a central aperture,
the base unglazed
Height 11¾ in., 29.8 cm
PROVENANCE
Chait Galleries, New York (according to label).

$ 5,000-7,000
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