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AN IVORY ‘GUANYIN AND CHILD’ GROUP 明末 牙雕送子觀音像
LATE MING DYNASTY
depicted with the bodhisattva seated on a low stool and
holding a child, wearing voluminous wide-sleeved robes with
her hair untied, the child clutching a book, the ivory patinated
to a creamy tone suffused with caramel patches
16.5 cm, 6½ in.
HK$ 80,000-120,000
US$ 10,200-15,300

This fine ivory carving of a seated sage was possibly made 本例送子觀音坐像雕工精良，應出自福建省漳州；漳州素
in one of the ivory workshops in Zhangzhou, Fujian province, 以牙雕製作見長，多製神仙像、吉祥物件，產量甚豐，遠
where carvings of small figures of deities, immortals or
銷海內外，備受青睞。Derek Gillman認為漳州牙雕主要
auspicious images were in vogue and in great demand by both
生產階段約為公元1580年，至一個世紀後由於清兵與鄭
domestic and foreign traders. Derek Gillman in Chinese Ivories
from the Shang to the Qing, London, 1984, p. 48, suggests 成功（世稱國興爺）之役福建海岸線被切斷而致其生產
that the main period for the production of Zhangzhou ivories 受阻（參見Derek Gillman，《Chinese Ivories from the
was from circa 1580 until the disruption of the Fujian coastline
Shang to the Qing》，倫敦，1984年，頁48）。本品造
by the Qing forces fighting Zheng Chenggong (also known as
Coxinga) a century later. The current figure is influenced by 型、神韻可見受基督教塑像之影響。
Christian iconography.

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