3. M5582
£38,500
Description
Chinese Blanc de Chine figure of Guanyin seated upon a Buddhist lion, with her right hand raised, her left hand holding a scroll, wearing a cowl revealing a lingzhi tiara, her robes extending over the sides of the Buddhist lion, whose head is turned to the left with elaborate curled hairwork, open mouth, stippled nose and cheeks and bushy eyebrows, his saddlecloth incised with branches of flowers amongst leaves, standing four-square on a naturalistic rockwork base, covered overall in an even creamy glaze.
10 inches, 25.4 cm high.
Dehua, Fujian Province.
Late Ming dynasty, circa 1620-1640.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From the collection of Marvin Davidson, New York.
- A related model with a recumbent Buddhist lion is illustrated by P. J. Donnelly in Blanc de Chine, no. 86C; another with an impressed gourd-shaped seal mark is illustrated by the Oriental Ceramic Society in their 2009 exhibition The World in Monochromes, no. 265, p. 117; another from a South-American collection with a wan pan seal was included by the Chinese Porcelain Company in their exhibition of 17th and 18th Century Chinese Porcelain from Distinguished Private Collections, 12th-28th October 2000, no. 6, p. 20-21; two others on recumbent Buddhist lions are illustrated by Rose Kerr and John Ayers in Blanc de Chine, Porcelain from Dehua, A Catalogue of the Hickley Collection, Singapore, nos. 9 & 10.