Lot 3218
  • 3218

AN APPLE-GREEN JADEITE FIGURE OF GUANYIN QING DYNASTY

Estimate
2,500,000 - 3,000,000 HKD
bidding is closed

Description

the serene figure standing barefoot on a lotus pod among waves, dressed in long flowing robes with a gentle sway to one side, with down-cast eyes and a serene smile, her finely combed hair pulled up in a high chignon covered with a veil falling over her shoulders and bejeweled torso, holding an amphora vase in her left hand near her chest, her right hand raised grasping a branch of peaches, the rich translucent apple-green stone accented with silvery undertones and natural russet inclusions

Provenance

Yamanaka & Co., Inc.
Parke Bernet Galleries, 27th May 1944, lot 901.
Collection of Mrs. Henry W. Breyer, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.
Parke Bernet Galleries, 14th November 1963, lot 315.
Christie’s New York, 29th March 2006, lot 226.

Condition

The figure is in very good condition. There is a minute chip to the tip-end of her right hand index finger. The actual colour is of an intense emerald green tone very close to the catalogue illustration.
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Catalogue Note

Similarly carved figures of Guanyin include a much larger example illustrated in Stanley Charles Nott, Voices from the Flowery Kingdom, New York, 1947, pl. LXXIV; and another sold in these rooms, 29th October 2001, lot 719, and sold again at Christie’s New York, 24th/25th March 2011, lot 1515. Compare also a figure of Magu holding a jia wine vessel, in the National Museum of History, Taipei, illustrated in The Jade Carving of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Taipei, 1990, pp. 108-109.