A LONGQUAN CELADON AND BISCUIT GROTTO WITH GUANYIN AND ACOLYTES

YUAN/EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

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A LONGQUAN CELADON AND BISCUIT GROTTO WITH GUANYIN AND ACOLYTES
YUAN/EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
The shrine is modelled with the figure of Guanyin in biscuit seated in a meditative pose on a ledge within a grotto, above two acolytes standing on outcroppings of rocks, and beneath an arch of openwork scrolling leaves with further leaves rising from a bird on one side and an amphora resting on a ledge on the other. The reverse has two circular apertures.
9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm.) high, box

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Compare a shrine of larger size in the Illustrated Catalogue of the Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics, II, Tokyo, 1990, p. 20, no. 520; and another illustrated in Porcelains from the Tianjin Municipal Museum, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 68.

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