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A RARE DEHUA BLANC DE CHINE FIGURE OF A SEATED GUANYIN Impressed He Chaozong gourd mark, 17th century image 1
A RARE DEHUA BLANC DE CHINE FIGURE OF A SEATED GUANYIN Impressed He Chaozong gourd mark, 17th century image 2
A RARE DEHUA BLANC DE CHINE FIGURE OF A SEATED GUANYIN Impressed He Chaozong gourd mark, 17th century image 3
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Lot 41

A RARE DEHUA BLANC DE CHINE FIGURE OF A SEATED GUANYIN
Impressed He Chaozong gourd mark, 17th century

17 March 2025, 09:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$12,800 inc. premium

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A RARE DEHUA BLANC DE CHINE FIGURE OF A SEATED GUANYIN

Impressed He Chaozong gourd mark, 17th century
The demure 'Goddess of Mercy' seated lalitasana in voluminous robes, her left arm resting on a three-legged stool and holding a ruyi scepter with beaded jewel, her right hand placed on her knee with fingers delicately posed over an exposed left foot, the small oval shaped head crowned with a chignon falling to plaited locks over her shoulders, a double-gourd He Chaozong seal mark impressed into the lower back of her robe.
8 1/2in (21.6cm) high

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十七世紀 何朝宗葫蘆印款 德化白瓷觀音坐像

Provenance:
Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, No. P. 7322, according to label
Sarah Bell Gambrell

來源:
紐約 Chinese Porcelain Company,編號 P. 7322,根據標簽
Sarah Bell Gambrell 舊藏

See Christie's, New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1161, for a larger model seated lalitasana holding a scroll, and another of the same pose as the present lot, sold Christie's, New York, 14 October 2009, lot 378. See Rose Kerr and John Ayers, Blanc De Chine. Porcelain from Dehua, Chicago, Art Media Resources, 2002, Fig. 11 for a similar but later dated model.

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