A 'BLANC-DE-CHINE' FIGURE OF GUANYIN, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

seated on a high rockwork base with both legs pendent, wearing long flowing robes, tied at the waist and falling open at the chest to reveal a beaded necklace, her bare feet protruding from beneath her skirt, her hair swept up into a high chignon held with a pin, and small diadem centred with Amitabha Buddha, and with long knotted tresses falling over her shoulders, her left arm resting on her knee, and holding a ruyi sceptre in her right hand, an ambrosial vase set on a ledge to one side, the back with a mark enclosed in a double gourd beside a square mark reading He Yin Chao Zong

Good condition
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The mark is by a potter from the He family who were the most significant family of Dehua potters.

Compare with a figure of Guanyin holding a child, illustrated by P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, the Porcelain of Tehua in Fukien, London, 1969, pl. 154B