A CONTINENTAL (HARD PASTE) FIGURE OF GUANYIN after the Meissen model by Fritzche, her dressed hair with a white veil and a blue and yellow diadem, standing in an iron-red robe above a yellow dress with lustred collar and belt and with blue-flowered white apron, on an oval wave-moulded domed base enriched in blue (slight chip to diadem), imitation crossed swords in black, 19th century

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A CONTINENTAL (HARD PASTE) FIGURE OF GUANYIN after the Meissen model by Fritzche, her dressed hair with a white veil and a blue and yellow diadem, standing in an iron-red robe above a yellow dress with lustred collar and belt and with blue-flowered white apron, on an oval wave-moulded domed base enriched in blue (slight chip to diadem), imitation crossed swords in black, 19th century
51.5cm. high

Provenance

Anon., sale Christie's, 28 March 1977, lot 110 (as Meissen)

Lot Essay

Figures of this type were made at Meissen in stoneware and white Böttger porcelain, see Willi Goder et al., Johann Friedrich Böttger die erfindung des Europäischen Porzellans, pp. 227-228, nos. 139 and 140

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