A BLANC DE CHINE SEATED FIGURE OF GUANYIN ON A REED MAT EARL...

A BLANC DE CHINE SEATED FIGURE OF GUANYIN ON A REED MAT EARLY KANGXI DYNASTY, CIRCA 1670 德化持卷观音坐像 约1670 with long flowing robes, resting her right hand on her raised right knee and holding a scroll in her left hand, the tip of her right foot exposed, wearing a lingzhi and ruyi-head jewelled necklace and a ruyi-head tiara, her hair neatly tied at the top with a hairpin, covered overall in an even, luminous pale cream glaze 23.8cm inches high PROVENANCE: From a European private collection A related Guanyin in similar pose, all seated on a reed mat and wearing a similar necklace and with identical hair features, is illustrated by Wang Yamin and Huang Weiwen in Dehua Wares Collected by the Palace Museum I, no 38, pp 124/5; another similar example was sold by Christie's London in their auction of Important Chinese Ceramics ad Works of Art, 4th June, lot 168. A further example with her hands hidden beneath her robes was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Blanc de Chine, 2006, no 13 p 28/9; a related Guanyin with similar glaze was sold by Sotheby Parke Bernet in their auction of The Edward T Chow Collection, Part Three, Ming and Qing Porcelain and Works of Art, 19th May, 1981, lot 462

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