Lot 21. A small Dehua figure of Damo, 17th-18th century; 9.8cm high. Sold for €2,560. Photo Bonhams.

Seated with his right leg up, dressed in a voluminous monastic robe falling in graceful folds around the body and legs, one hand hidden within the long sleeve, the other and one foot exposed, the sensitively modeled face with closed eyes and a contemplative expression, covered overall in a creamy glaze of ivory tone.

Provenance: Collection of Carl Kempe (1884-1967), Stockholm
Sotheby's Paris, 12 July 2008, lot 67.

Published: Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm 1964, pl.622, p.187.

Note: A similar figure bearing a He Chaozhong mark, also from the Collection of Carl Kempe, is illustrated in Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm 1964, cat.no.623, and was included in the exhibition The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 15 November - 14 December 1957, cat.no.8, later sold in Christie's Hong Kong, 1 June 2016, lot 3324.

Bonhams - Cornette de Saint Cyr. CHINESE ART FROM A GERMAN FAMILY COLLECTION, Paris, 26 October 2023