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A 'BLANC-DE-CHINE' FIGURE OF GUANYIN, QING DYNASTY 18TH/19TH CENTURY
A 'BLANC-DE-CHINE' FIGURE OF GUANYIN, QING DYNASTY 18TH/19TH CENTURYEstimate $4,500 – $5,500
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- Lot Sold $4,600 (Hammer Price)
- $5,520 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
standing barefoot on a cloud scroll base, wearing long flowing robes revealing a beaded ruyi pendant, her hands emerging from the voluminous sleeves, the right holding the scroll of wisdom, her face serene and her hair drawn into a high chignon held with a ruyi pin and draped with a cloth at the back
37CM
PROVENANCE
Mr John Weller
The Connosseur's Collcection, Sotheby's Australia, 27 May 2008, lot 47
Private Collection, Melbourne
LITERATURE
Compare with a figure of Guanyin sold Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2007, lot 785; and a larger figure sold Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2006, lot 1028
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