Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

SEVEN CHINESE DEHUA MODELS OF FIGURES AND BUDDHIST LIONS
17TH/18TH CENTURY

25cm. (7)

WITHOUT RESERVE
本拍品不設底價。

From the Helen Espir Collection, nos. 28, 710, 971, 999.

Comprising: one figure group of two European gentlemen standing on a rockwork base, with a paper label for Marchant; two seated figures of Guanyin holding a small child in her lap, one later-enamelled in red and black, with a paper label reading 'Helen Espir Collection 710' and another for 'Geoffrey Waters, London', the other figure with a paper label reading 'Helen Espir Collection 999'; a seated figure of Guanyin later-enamelled in green, red, turquoise and black, with a paper label reading 'Helen Espir Collection 971'; a standing figure of Guanyin, with a paper label reading 'HMEC 28'; and two crouching figures of Buddhist lions later-enamelled in red, yellow and gilt.

Exhibited: the European figure group, Marchant, Blanc de Chine, 2014, no.58.