EARLY MING DYNASTY, 14TH-15TH CENTURY

The South Sea Guanyin is a manifestation of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, particular to Chinese Buddhism, who resides at her South Sea island abode, Potalaka. For a further discussion of the South Sea Guanyin see Kaikodo Journal, Spring 2000, pp. 224-25, no. 73, from the collection of Stanley Herzman, later sold at Christie's New York, 20 September 2002, lot 308. Another similar shrine was also sold at Christie's New York, 19-20 September 2013, lot 1285. See, also, a shrine of larger size in the Illustrated Catalogue of the Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics II, Tokyo, 1990, p. 20, no. 520; and another illustrated in Porcelains from the Tianjin Municipal Museum, Hong Kong, 1993, no. 68.