A CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE MODEL OF GUANYIN

C.1620

Standing on an over-turned vase, wearing long flowing robes, her hair covered by a shawl and secured with a lotus diadem, her eyes downcast, the base with lotus flowers and swirling waves, an impressed mark to the reverse for He Chaozong, 37.8cm.

Provenance: formerly in the collection of Captain H Meuldijk, The Netherlands.

Cf. Marchant, Blanc de Chine, 2006 Exhibition, pp.8-9, no.1 for a comparable model from the collection of Elizabeth Gibson Holahan. See also P J Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, pl.145c, where an example modelled with a small boy is illustrated.