Lot 3687. A Dehua figure of Guanyin, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722);  33.5 cm., 13 1/4  in. Estimate 200,000 — 300,000 HKD (23,344 - 35,016 EUR). Lot sold 875,000 HKD (100,586 EUR). Photo Sotheby's

depicted seated in vajraparyankasana on a ruyi petal pedestal, dressed in loosely wrapped flowing robes parted at the chest to reveal a necklace, the garment cascading in layered folds, her serene expression detailed with an urna on the forehead, the hair neatly drawn back beneath a lotus filet draped with a shawl falling across the shoulders, the figure evenly covered with a thick ivory-tinted glaze.

Provenance: Collection of Edward T. Chow (1910-80).
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19th May 1981, lot 460.

Note: Notable for the naturalistic modelling, as evident in the voluminous falling robes, this figure bears resemblance to a group of Dehua sculptures of Guanyin with seal marks of He Chaozong. See one included in the exhibition Blanc-de-Chine. Divine Images in Porcelain, China Institute, New York, 2002, cat. no. 25, and sold in our New York rooms, 20th March 2007, lot 770; another in the Koger collection, included in the exhibition Chinese Ceramics in the Koger Collection, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, 1985, cat. no. 147; a third from the Robert H. Blumenfield collection, illustrated in Blanc de Chine. The Great Porcelain of Dehua, Berkeley, 2002, p. 130, fig. a; another similar figure seated on a mat by He Chaozong, illustrated by P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, The Porcelain of Tehua in Fukien, London, 1969, pl. 143B; and a further example sold at Christie’s New York, 9th November 1981, lot 237.

 Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 07 oct. 2015, 02:30 PM