Lot 255. A large Dehua figure of Guanyin, 18th century. Height 23 7/8  in., 60.8 cm.  Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD. Lot sold 30,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's.

finely modeled standing on a lotus leaf base above cresting waves, wearing a long robe tied at the waist and open at the chest revealing a beaded necklace, the hair tied in an elaborate topknot behind a tiara, the left hand holding the skirt hem, right hand holding a wicker basket, the back with an impressed Wanli six-character mark within a square below an impressed double-gourd seal bearing the characters Fujian Dehua zhizao.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Works of Art, New York, 17 march 2015