A Blanc-de-Chine Figure of Guanyin

QING DYNASTY, 1675-1725, WITH IMPRESSED POTTER'S MARK OF LINYIN XIAOZONG

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A Blanc-de-Chine Figure of Guanyin
Qing dynasty, 1675-1725, with impressed potter's mark of Linyin Xiaozong
Finely modeled wearing voluminous robes and seated in the position of 'royal ease', her face with downcast eyes and benign expression, her hair covered with a cowl, her left arm resting on a budding lotus stem and her right resting on her raised knee, holding in her left hand a ruyi sceptre, covered in a creamy glaze of ivory tone, the back impressed with a potter's mark, Linyin Xiaozong
6¼in. (15.7cm.) high, stand
Falk Collection no. 245.

Provenance

Paul Baerwald Collection, New York.
John Sparks, London, July 1937.

Exhibited

J. Sparks, Exhibition of the Paul Baerwald Collection, 1937, no.141.

Lot Essay

Lin Xiaozong (1675-1725) was a member of the Lin family of potters associated with the Dehua kilns. Three figures impressed with his seal mark are illustrated by P. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, New York, 1969, pl. 142, figs. A-C. Compare a similar Guanyin, but holding a scroll instead of a ruyi sceptre, with the mark of Lin Feizong illustrated in the same volume, pl. 141.

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