Chinese Dehua ware sold at Bonhams Los Angeles, 16 – 25 June 2025
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Lot 43. Two Dehua figures, Guanyin and Child: Kangxi period; Budai: 19th century; 25cm, 17.8cm high (2). Sold for US$588,80. © Bonhams 2001-2025
Provenance: Guanyin and child: Acquired in Los Angeles, circa 2006-2009
Budai: Dragon House Oriental Fine Art & Antiques, San Francisco, 24 August 2010.
Note: For another 'Guanyin and child' group of this type, see one from the collection of Leo and Doris Hodroff and now in the collection of the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library (obj. no. 2001.0061.089) exhibited and published in Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur, Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, 2005, p. 173, cat. no. 110.
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Lot 44. Two Dehua figures, 18th century. Comprising a seated figure of Guanyin; and a seated figure of Budai; 14.6cm; 7.6cm high (2, wood stand for Budai). Sold for US$2,304. © Bonhams 2001-2025
Provenance: Guanyin: J. F. Chen, Los Angeles, 21 March 2014
Budai: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, November 1964
Collection of Evelyn Annenberg Hall
Christie's, New York, 29 March 2006, lot 130 (part lot)
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Lot 45. Six 'European subject' Dehua figural groups, 17th-18th century. Comprising a figure of Governor Duff seated with a monkey; a standing Madonna and child; a pair of Dutchmen each riding on horseback; a 'hunting scene' group; and a 'musicians' group; 37.5cm height of tallest (6). Sold for US$24,320. © Bonhams 2001-2025
Provenance: Governor Duff and monkey: The Brass Key Antiques, Great Neck, NY, 11 April 1975
Sotheby's, New York, 16 September 2014, lot 660 (part lot)
Madonna and child: The Brass Key Antiques, Great Neck, NY, 11 April 1975
Sotheby's, New York, 16 September 2014, lot 660 (part lot)
Pair of Dutchmen on horseback: Rare Art Inc., New York, 5 December 1973 (one of pair)
Don Abarbanel, Marble Dale, CT, 4 May 1977 (the other of pair)
Sotheby's, New York, 16 September 2014, lot 659 (both)
'Hunt' group: Sotheby's, New York, 16 September 2014, lot 661
'Musicians' group: Tibor Collection
Stair Galleries, Hudson, NY, 7 September 2022, lot 138
Bonhams. Asian Art Online, Los Angeles, 16 – 25 June 2025