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STATUETTE DE GUANYIN À L'ENFANT EN PORCELAINE BLANC DE CHINE XVIIIe siècle
11 June 2025, 11:30 CEST
Paris, Avenue Hoche€8,000 - €12,000
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STATUETTE DE GUANYIN À L'ENFANT EN PORCELAINE BLANC DE CHINE
XVIIIe siècle
A DEHUA FIGURE OF GUANYIN AND CHILD
18th century
Finely modelled seated in a relaxed pose on a high openwork rockwork base, dressed in a voluminous gown falling in ample folds around her, her face with serene features, her hair gathered and hidden under a cowl, her arms supporting a small boy seated on her lap, the boy holding a lotus pod in his right hand and clutching the Guanyin's robe with his other hand, a book placed on a small rockwork ledge to her left side, covered overall with an unctuous white glaze, the back with the mark He.
32 cm (12 1/2 in.) high
A DEHUA FIGURE OF GUANYIN AND CHILD
18th century
Finely modelled seated in a relaxed pose on a high openwork rockwork base, dressed in a voluminous gown falling in ample folds around her, her face with serene features, her hair gathered and hidden under a cowl, her arms supporting a small boy seated on her lap, the boy holding a lotus pod in his right hand and clutching the Guanyin's robe with his other hand, a book placed on a small rockwork ledge to her left side, covered overall with an unctuous white glaze, the back with the mark He.
32 cm (12 1/2 in.) high
Footnotes
Provenance:
Acquired by the grandparents of the present owner in Munich in the 1920s, thence in the family by descent.
十八世紀 德化窰白釉送子觀音像
來源
現藏家之祖父母於1920年代初於慕尼黑入藏，後經家族流傳至今
A seal mark reading He stamped on the back of the figure refers to He Chaozong, the most celebrated potter of the Dehua kilns, believed to have been active during the Jiajing and Wanli periods of the Ming dynasty. He Chaozong's works while believed to be numerous, were widely imitated. A number of known variations of the impressed He Chaozong potter's mark are known and published in P.J. Donnelly, Blanc De Chine, London, 1969, pp. 354-355. Among the various marks, Donnelly lists the single-character He mark and notes that it appears in this form only on an 18th century Dehua figure of Guanyin in the collection of Chingwah Lee, see P.J. Donnelly, ibid., p. 278 and p. 354, F1b. Compare with the figure of Songzi Guanyin in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, bearing the mark of He Chaozong (accession no. AK-MAK-658). Compare also with an almost identical figure formerly in the Dobrikow collection, sold in Rudolf Lepke, Berlin, 4 and 5 March 1930, lot 170, illustrated on pl.8.