QING DYNASTY

The deity seated in the posture of royal ease, the hair worn in knotted tresses that fall across the shoulders and partially swept up into a topknot above the serene face with downcast eyes, dressed in a voluminous robes opening at the chest to expose a pendent necklace, her hands resting upon the raised left knee hidden within the long sleeves of the gracefully draped robe, with a vase placed on an outcropping of rock to one side.

A similar dehua Guanyin is illustrated in Chinese Ceramic Tresures, A Selection from the Ulricehamn East Asian Museum, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, no 817, p.285. Compare with a similar seated dehua Guanyin sold in Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2005, lot 1519.

H 16 cm