A Chinese Blanc-de-Chine guanyin. Kangxi
Guanyin holding a scroll while resting a hand on a raised knee, wearing flowing robes extending to a cowl covering the hair, with a necklace and ruyi-head pendant, covered in a white glaze.
- Country:
- China (Dehua)
- Period :
- Kangxi (1662-1722), ca. 1690
- Material:
- Porcelain
- Reference :
- D702
- Status:
- sold
Provenance
From an important French collection of Blanc-de-Chine
Related works
Two similar figures, from the National Museet, Department of Ethnography, Copenhagen (collection no. Ebc 163-164), which appeared in the Danish Royal Inventory of 1701, are illustrated by Michel Beurdeley and Guy Raindre in Qing Porcelain, Famille Verte, Famille Rose, no. 350.
Two furthers Guanyin are illustrated by Marchant in Blanc-de-Chine, 2014, p. 79, no. 41.
