Sale 7084
London
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8 November 2005
Price realised
GBP 540
Estimate
A BLANC DE CHINE SEATED FIGURE OF GUANYIN 18TH CENTURY Seated at royal ease, holding a scroll and resting her hands on her right knee, wearing hair ornaments in her high knotted hair, impressed illegible square mark 6 in. (15 cm.) high
Provenance
Christie's London, 14 December 1987, lot 365
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Specialist Sarah Reynolds highlights the sumptuous work of the Pre-Raphaelites’ second and third generations
Specialist Camille de Foresta explains how these two large beasts were made some 1,000 years ago to accompany their Chinese owner into the afterlife