CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, XVÈME-XVIIÈME SIÈCLE

Details

GRANDE STATUE DE GUANYIN EN BOIS POLYCHROME
CHINE, DYNASTIE MING, XVÈME-XVIIÈME SIÈCLE
Hauteur : 91,5 cm. (36 in.)

Provenance

European private collection, acquired in Turin, Italy, in 2005.
Christie's London, Inspired Themes: A Fine Selection of Chinese Works of Art, 10 May 2016, lot 27.

Further details

A LARGE POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF GUANYIN
CHINA, MING DYNASTY, 15TH-17TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

Compare the present lot to a polychrome wood figure of Guanyin depicted in the same pose but dated to the earlier Jin period, ca. 1200, in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, illustrated by Rose Kerr in Chinese Art and Design, London, 1991, pl. 36.

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