Footnotes

• Provenance: an Italian private collection
  
  約1640年 德化窯白釉佛像 「何朝宗印」篆書印款
  
  來源: 意大利私人收藏
  
  He Chaozong (by tradition, living AD1522-1612) is considered to be one of the greatest master potters of Dehua figures, creating figures of pure white clay with a creamy pearl-like glaze. By absorbing various techniques of clay modelling, wood tooling and stone carving, he developed his own method which became known as the He School.
  
  He Chaozong excelled at creating statues of the Buddha, Guanyin and of the Immortals for temples and palaces, but figures of the Buddha are among the most rare and precious of his creations. His works can now be found in the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing and in leading private collections and museums in Europe.
  
  Compare a very similar figure attributed to He Chaozong in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated by P.J.Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, New York, 1967, pl.146A. Another blanc-de-chine standing Buddha in a similar pose but slightly smaller was included in the exhibition by S.Marchant & Son, Blanc de Chine, London, 2006, no.8.
  
  Compare also two blanc-de-chine figures of Guanyin, signed He Chaozong, which were sold in these rooms, 10 November 2011, lot 210, and 12 May 2012, lot 297.

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Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art

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