Lot Essay
A similarly modeled figure of Guanyin, also bearing the mark of He Chao Zong, but with the hands revealed to hold a rosary and a scroll, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, is illustrated by P. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, New York, 1969, pl. 146, fig. A.
A Guanyin in a similar pose with He Chaozong mark, from The Grandidier Collection in The Musée Guimet, Paris is illustrated by Albert Le Bonheur in The World’s Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics, vol. 7, color plate 31; another, from The J. M. Hu Collection, was sold by Christie’s New York, 14th/ 15th September 2009, lot 408.
A Guanyin in a similar pose with He Chaozong mark, from The Grandidier Collection in The Musée Guimet, Paris is illustrated by Albert Le Bonheur in The World’s Great Collections, Oriental Ceramics, vol. 7, color plate 31; another, from The J. M. Hu Collection, was sold by Christie’s New York, 14th/ 15th September 2009, lot 408.