17TH-19TH CENTURY

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A DEHUA FIGURE OF SEATED GUANYIN
17TH-19TH CENTURY
The reverse is impressed with a two-character seal mark, jin feng (cautiously sealed) below a hu-shaped mark.
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Private collection, New York, acquired prior to 1970 and thence by descent within the family.

Exhibited

Yonkers, New York, Sarah Lawrence College, Women in Oriental Art: Han Dynasty to the Present; 2000 Years of Far Eastern Art, New York, 7 October -7 December 1986, no. 36.

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Lot Essay

The impressed mark on the current figure, jin feng, is a seal frequently used by scholars in ancient times on their correspondence to indicate that a document had been sealed. This mark can be seen on a number of Dehua and Yixing wares, including a large Dehua seated figure of Maitreya mentioned by P.J. Donnelly in Blanc de Chine, New York, 1969, p. 256, where the author mistakenly identified the mark as wan bang, or 'all nations', at the time.

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