A BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF GUANYIN SEATED ON A CROUCHING BUDDHISTIC LION, 18th/19th Century, the goddess perched erectly sidesaddle on the benign recumbent beast, her long tresses caught in two bands falling over her shoulders, wearing a softly flowing scarf over an underskirt tied at the waist, a jeweled pectoral, armlets and bracelets, her back impressed with square seal-mark 'Hsü Yün-lin' and gourd-shaped seal reading 'Dehua'--10½ in. high | Christie's

Lot 402

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A BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF GUANYIN SEATED ON A CROUCHING BUDDHISTIC LION, 18th/19th Century, the goddess perched erectly sidesaddle on the benign recumbent beast, her long tresses caught in two bands falling over her shoulders, wearing a softly flowing scarf over an underskirt tied at the waist, a jeweled pectoral, armlets and bracelets, her back impressed with square seal-mark 'Hsü Yün-lin' and gourd-shaped seal reading 'Dehua'--10½ in. high

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A BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF GUANYIN SEATED ON A CROUCHING BUDDHISTIC LION, 18th/19th Century, the goddess perched erectly sidesaddle on the benign recumbent beast, her long tresses caught in two bands falling over her shoulders, wearing a softly flowing scarf over an underskirt tied at the waist, a jeweled pectoral, armlets and bracelets, her back impressed with square seal-mark 'Hsü Yün-lin' and gourd-shaped seal reading 'Dehua'--10½ in. high

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Please note a similar example is listed in P.J. Donelly, Blanc de Chine, 1969, p. 338, and seal mark reading 'Dehua', pl. 352

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