MING DYNASTY, 16TH-EARLY 17TH CENTURY, HE CHAOZONG IMPRESSED SEAL MARK

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A DEHUA FIGURE OF SEATED GUANYIN
MING DYNASTY, 16TH-EARLY 17TH CENTURY, HE CHAOZONG IMPRESSED SEAL MARK
The Bodhisattva is modelled in a relaxed pose with one leg crossed over the other, holding a scroll in her proper left hand. She is dressed in long flowing robes and her hair is fastened in an elaborate knot held by a ruyi-form hairpin. The reverse is impressed with the maker's mark He Chaozong within a double gourd.
10 1⁄4 in. (26 cm.) high

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Please note the measurement of this lot is:
10 1⁄4 in. (26 cm.) high.

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10 1⁄4 in. (26 cm.) high.

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Compare to a very similar example with an impressed He Chaozong mark illustrated by John Ayers, Blanc De Chine - Devine Images in Porcelain, 2002, no. 34 and another currently exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art (museum no. 18.2018).

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