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Lot 386
A FINE DEHUA FIGURE OF SEATED GUANYIN
Estimated Value:
5.000 € - 8.000 €
Result:
incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
China, 17th/ 18th c.H. 21,3 cm
Shown seated above a cushion with one leg raised, the left arm resting on support and holding a ruyi scepter, the back impressed with a gourd-shaped mark He Chaochun.
French private collection, assembled before 2007
He Chaochun was thought to have been a relative, possibly the younger brother of He Chaozong, working about twenty years later and on a smaller scale than the celebrated late Ming dynasty Dehua potter. Displaying a comparable and skillful modelling as He Chaozong, the present Guanyin is characterised by a highly translucent body and radiating grace, particularly notable in her elegant hands and the finely articulated wrists and fingers.
A similar blanc-de-Chine figure of Guanyin, Ming dynasty, is illustrated in J.Chapman, The Art of Rhinoceros Horn Carving in China, London, 1999, p.252, pl.364.
A small Dehua figure of a seated monk, Qing dynasty, 17th/18th century, with impressed He Chaochun mark, was sold at Christie's New York, 19 March 2015, lot 444; and see also another Dehua figure of Guanyin, Qing dynasty, 17th/18th century, which was sold at Christie's, Paris, 9 June 2015, lot 113 - Partly restored breaks or filled firing cracks, fingers partly slightly restored
