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22 | BONHAMS A FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT GUANYIN GROTTO
Kangxi
Glazed in an ‘egg and spinach’ palette, formed with a central figure
of Guanyin seated on a lotus pedestal flanked with her attendants
Shancai and Longnu both raised on rockwork, all within a grotto with a
vase and bird perched upon outcrops.
21cm (8 1/4in) high

£2,500 - 3,000
CNY23,000 - 28,000
HK$27,000 - 33,000

For a similar grotto, Kangxi, see C.J.A Jorg, Chinese Ceramics in the
Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 1997, p. 184, no. 204.

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A FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT FIGURE OF GUANYIN
Kangxi
The Bodhisattva of Mercy seated in padmasana, wearing long ornate
robes and a shawl over the high chignon, each hand in mudra, all
raised on a lotus throne extending from a decorated openwork plinth.
Overall: 41cm (16in) high (2).

£1,500 - 2,000
CNY14,000 - 18,000
HK$16,000 - 22,000

For a similar famille verte figure and stand, Kangxi, sold in these sale
rooms, see Bonhams’s 23 September 2015, lot 137. See another
figure, sold at Christie’s New York 26 January 2015, lot 67.

Also compare with a figure, without a stand, in the Victoria & Albert
Museum collection no. C.1275&A-1910.