Lot 59
59
A FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT FIGURE OF GUANYIN SEATED ON A TALL LOTUS HEXAGONAL STAND with pierced balcony, Guanyin holding a peach in her right hand and wearing a tasselled string of beads over her long flowing robes, her hair swept up in a chignon and covered with a cowl (some restoration, extremity chips), Kangxi

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A FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT FIGURE OF GUANYIN SEATED ON A TALL LOTUS HEXAGONAL STAND with pierced balcony, Guanyin holding a peach in her right hand and wearing a tasselled string of beads over her long flowing robes, her hair swept up in a chignon and covered with a cowl (some restoration, extremity chips), Kangxi
41cm. high

Lot Essay

Cf. the similar example, but with glazed head, in the Musee Guimet, Paris, illustrated, M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain, pl.105, p.74; and the example in the Morgan Collection, Catalogue, pl.XXXV, no.5, p.11

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