A 'Dehua' Figure of Guanyin 17th/18th Century

seated with one leg raised, wearing long robes falling into voluminous folds and opening at the chest to reveal a ruyi-shaped pendant, the hands holding a scroll and rested on the raised right knee, depicted with a serene expression framed by neatly combed hair piled up into an elaborate chignon

Collection of Howard Paget.
Marchant, London, 6th October 1977.

Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period (circa 1620-1680 A.D.) from the Collection of Mr & Mrs Peter Thompson, Hull University, Hull, 1985, cat. no. 63.

Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain. The Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1912), London, 1951, pl. CXX, no. 2.

Well potted; loss to the tip of her hair piece; firing cracks to the interior, visible to the exterior to the folds of her robe along her right leg; other faint firing cracks elsewhere; otherwise in good condition.
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