Lot 257. A Dehua seated Guanyin, Late Ming Dynasty. Height 5 5/8  in., 14.3 cm.  Estimate 15,000 — 20,000 USD. Lot sold 18,750 USD. Photo Sotheby's.

elegantly modeled with the right arm supported on the raised right knee, wearing long robes falling into voluminous folds extending to a cowl revealing a flowerhead tiara above the neatly combed hair, and opening at the chest to reveal a beaded necklace suspending a pendant, the face with a benevolent expression, the interior of the base incised under the glaze with a yuan character.

Provenance: Harlan E. Youel (1909-1988).
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (accession no. 89.27.27).

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