6. M3177
£14,500
Description
Chinese Blanc de Chine Guanyin seated on a raised rockwork throne, wearing long robes extending to a cowl revealing an elaborate flowerhead tiara, wearing a jewelled necklace with three pendants, her right hand resting on her raised right knee with one foot exposed, covered in an even cream glaze.
9 1⁄8 inches, 23.2 cm high.
Dehua, Fujian Province.
Late Ming Dynasty, circa 1620.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From the collection of Captain J. Meuldijk, The Netherlands.
- Published by Marchant in their exhibition of Blanc de Chine, 2014, no. 19, pp. 40/1.
- A similar Guanyin from The Koger Collection, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, The State Art Museum of Florida, is illustrated by John Ayers in Blanc de Chine, Divine Images in Porcelain, no. 36, p. 85.
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