A large and fine standing Blanc-de-chine Buddha by  Xu Youyi, China, marked Dehua and Xu Yunlin zhi (1887 - 1940). photo Nagel Auctions

Property from an old European private collection

A standing Buddha by Xu Yunlin from the Richard Lehman Gray collection is illustrated by John Ayers in Blanc de Chine, Divine Images in Porcelain, plate 72, p. 121 

A similar earlier figure on a lotus flower head base from the collection of Captain and Mrs. V. Bulkeley-Johnson (who formed the Mount Trust), was included by Godfrey Gompertz and Margaret Medley in A Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramic Art, Oriental Ceramic Society at the Quantas gallery, Piccadilly, London, 1966, Catalogue no. 96,

Another in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art on a lotus petal base is illustrated by Margaret Medley in The World's Great Collections, Oriental Ceramic, Volume 6, no. 205

Very slightly chipped. H. 53,2 cm - Estimate 10 000 €

Nagel Auctions. Asian Art. November 4th 2011. www.auction.de