Two Americans in Paris, The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers

Two Americans in Paris, The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 349. A large blue and white figure of seated Guanyin Ming Dynasty, Wanli Period | 明萬曆 青花觀音坐像.

A large blue and white figure of seated Guanyin Ming Dynasty, Wanli Period | 明萬曆 青花觀音坐像

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November 4, 11:45 AM GMT

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40,000 - 60,000 GBP

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A large blue and white figure of seated Guanyin

Ming Dynasty, Wanli Period

明萬曆 青花觀音坐像


the seated figure holding a cup in the left hand and the stem of a leafy sprig in the right, her face with benign expression below the foliate crown centered by Amitabha Buddha, wearing long flowing robes decorated with dragon and phoenix roundels, with a circular aperture on either side of the plinth and one in the middle of the back 


From a European Nobel collection .

Christie's New York, 22nd March 1999, lot 286A.

歐洲貴族舊藏

佳士得紐約,1999年3月22日,拍品286A

Jean-Paul Desroches, Two Americans in Paris, A Quest for Asian Art, 2016, Paris, no. 301

Jean-Paul Desroches編《Two Americans in Paris,A Quest for Asian Art》,2016年,巴黎,圖版301