Lot 36. A Dehua group of a seated Guanyin and two attendants, Late Ming dynasty, circa 1640. Hauteur : 24 cm. Price realised EUR 6,300 (Estimate: EUR 5,000 – EUR 7,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2023 

Provenance: From an English private collection.

Exhibited: Included by Marchant in their exhibition, Blanc de Chine, 2006, no. 18, pp. 38-39,label.
Included by Marchant in their exhibition, Blanc de Chine, 2014, no. 32, pp. 60-61, label.

Note: This Guanyin appears to be one of the earliest groups with the acolytes and closely resembles one dated to 1629 from The Pao-Ts'an-Shih Collection, Hong Kong, illustrated by P. J. Donnelly in Blanc de Chine, pl. 71B; another, from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Bequest of Forrest R. Brauer (85. 1502), is illustrated by John Ayers in Blanc de Chine, Divine Images in Porcelain, no. 50, p.99, where Ayers illustrates another from Blaeu's Nieuw Atlas of 1655.

Christie's. ART D'ASIE, Paris, 12 december 2023