A BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF GUANYINImpressed Huijiang Shanren seal mark, 17th century The deity finely modelled standing, draped in long flowing robes open at the chest to reveal beaded jewellery and cascading to the rockwork plinth, her feet exposed, her delicate hands held in front of her belly, the face with contemplative expression beneath finely moulded tiara and hood, covered in a yellowish-white glaze,, the back impressed with a four-character sealmark. 44.2cm (17 1/2in) high.Footnotes十七世紀 德化白釉觀音立像 模印「茴江山人」篆書款 Blanc-de-Chine pieces by Huijiang Shanren are extremely rare. Robert Blumenfield notes that the Huijiang Shanren ('Mountain Hermit of the Hui River') excelled at sculpting Buddhist figures, in Blanc de Chine: The Great Porcelain of Dehua, Berkeley, 2002, p.139. A seated figure of Guanyin with a similar mark is illustrated by P.J.Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, London, 1969, pl. 82A. Donnelly places the potter in the second half of the seventeenth century, ibid., p.283. See a related blanc-de-Chine figure of Guanyin, attributed to Huijiang Shanren, late Ming dynasty, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 13 September 2016, lot 293.
A BLANC-DE-CHINE FIGURE OF GUANYINImpressed Huijiang Shanren seal mark, 17th century The deity finely modelled standing, draped in long flowing robes open at the chest to reveal beaded jewellery and cascading to the rockwork plinth, her feet exposed, her delicate hands held in front of her belly, the face with contemplative expression beneath finely moulded tiara and hood, covered in a yellowish-white glaze,, the back impressed with a four-character sealmark. 44.2cm (17 1/2in) high.Footnotes十七世紀 德化白釉觀音立像 模印「茴江山人」篆書款 Blanc-de-Chine pieces by Huijiang Shanren are extremely rare. Robert Blumenfield notes that the Huijiang Shanren ('Mountain Hermit of the Hui River') excelled at sculpting Buddhist figures, in Blanc de Chine: The Great Porcelain of Dehua, Berkeley, 2002, p.139. A seated figure of Guanyin with a similar mark is illustrated by P.J.Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, London, 1969, pl. 82A. Donnelly places the potter in the second half of the seventeenth century, ibid., p.283. See a related blanc-de-Chine figure of Guanyin, attributed to Huijiang Shanren, late Ming dynasty, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 13 September 2016, lot 293.
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