A CRIZZLED CLEAR GLASS FIGURE OF GUANYIN

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A CRIZZLED CLEAR GLASS FIGURE OF GUANYIN
17TH/18TH CENTURY

The standing figure wearing long robes and a cowl over her hair, the face carved with small features, with a pontil on the base, the surface extensively crizzled (some foot rim chips)
7 3/8in. (19cm.) high
Provenance
Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

A closely related, but slightly smaller crizzled clear glass Guanyin from the George Crofts Collection, The Royal Ontario Museum, was exhibited in Clear as Crystal, Red as Flame; Later Chinese Glass, China House Gallery, New York, April 21-June 16, 1990, Catalogue, no. 4. For a detailed discussion of this figure, along with a larger glass figure of a Buddha, refer to Brill and Martin, Scientific Research in Early Chinese Glass, New York, 1991, p. 37, fig. 15, p. 41 and p. 71. The authors conservatively date both figures to a range of the 17-19th centuries, and suggest that they could have originated from one manufacturing center that made figurines for different markets

Another glass figurine, slightly smaller in size, was included in The International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-36, Catalogue, no. 2759B