A CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE SEATED FIGURE OF WATER-MOON GUANYIN

17TH/ EARLY 18TH CENTURY

The Goddess of Compassion sits wearing voluminous robes falling in graceful folds, her right hand resting elegantly on her raised knee, with her sleeve bunched at the wrist to reveal a bangle, the hair arranged in a high chignon and a ruyi-shaped headpiece, with an artist's mark within a double gourd to the back reading He Chaozong, with a double lotus wood stand, 19cm. (2)

Provenance: an English private collection, and thence by descent.