A 'DEHUA' FIGURE OF SHOULAO 17TH / 18TH CENTURY

the seated deity holding a peach, with smiling countenance beneath a prominent brow, a crane nestled against the right side and a recumbent deer looking up from the left, all supported on a rockwork base, wood stand (2)

Blanc de Chine: Divine Images in Porcelain, China Institute Gallery, New York, 2002, cat. no. 45.

Liu Youzheng, Zhongguo Dehua Baici Yanjiu / Blanc de Chine, Beijing, 2007, col. pl. 38.

With scattered old chips to the edge of the base and along the edges of the robe. A loss to one ribbon in the figure's hair, as well as an old chip to the deer's antlers and a possible old chip to the crane's tail feathers. Minor firing flaws and imperfections and small firing cracks throughout. The glaze an ivory color.
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