A DEHUA 'GUANYIN AND CHILD' GROUP QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

together with a smaller figure of guanyin, the reverse with an apocryphal double gourd He Chaozong mark (2)

Larger figure: 
Collection of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland (1670-1733), Saxony, Dresden, inv. no. I.82.
Sotheby's Amsterdam, 16th-17th October, 2001, lot 206
Vanderven & Vanderven, 's-Hertogenbosch, 2003. Smaller figure:
Southern California Private Collection. 
Asian Art Studio, Los Angeles, 25th March 2010.

Larger figure:
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50, New York, 2008, pl. 345.

Both with minor chips to the extremities, including the loss of the right thumb to the smaller Guanyin, and possible minor consolidation to the hairpin. Overall with scattered firing imperfections, including a firing tear with an associated hairline crack to the reverse of the base of the 'Songzi Guanyin' group.
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