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18TH-19TH CENTURY
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A LARGE DEHUA STANDING FIGURE OF GUANYIN
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The bejewelled figure is crisply modelled standing barefoot on a wave base with a basket in her right hand, her robes fall loosely about her body and the hems are incised with a floral scroll. She wears a crown and her hair is piled in a high chignon. There is a faint impressed four-character mark within a square to her back reading Pu ji yu ren that may be translated as "Virtue extends to all, even fishermen".
24 in. (61 cm.) high
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The bejewelled figure is crisply modelled standing barefoot on a wave base with a basket in her right hand, her robes fall loosely about her body and the hems are incised with a floral scroll. She wears a crown and her hair is piled in a high chignon. There is a faint impressed four-character mark within a square to her back reading Pu ji yu ren that may be translated as "Virtue extends to all, even fishermen".
24 in. (61 cm.) high
Provenance
Christie's London King Street , 6 June 1994, lot 202.
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