POTTER'S MARK HE CHAOZONG, 17TH CENTURY

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A LARGE FINE BLANC DE CHINE FIGURE OF GUANYIN
POTTER'S MARK HE CHAOZONG, 17TH CENTURY
The goddess finely modelled standing on a vase of lotus enclosed by swirling and breaking waves forming a circular mound, her face with a serene expression, turned slightly to her left, and her plaited hair kept in place with a tiara, wearing voluminous robes falling in soft folds and open at the front to reveal a single-strand necklace with lotus motif, one well-modelled bare foot visible below her long skirt, the centre of her back with an impressed square four-character He Chaozong seal mark
20¼ in. (51.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 May 1987, lot 528

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Sale room notice

Please note that this figure is not the one illustrated in the S. Marchant & Sons 1985 catalogue, although the two figures are virtually identical.

Lot Essay

An almost identical figure by He Chaozong, originally in the Edward T. Chow collection, now in the Koger Collection at the State Art Museum of Florida, was included in the exhibition Blanc de Chine, Divine Images in Porcelain, China Institute, New York, 2002, catalogue no. 26, and illustrated by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain, Famille Verte, Famille Rose, London, 1987, pl. 333, and again in Blanc de Chine, by S. Marchant & Son, London, 1985, no. 1.

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