A 'DEHUA' FIGURE OF GUANYIN QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

finely modeled in a pose of 'royal ease', adorned in loose robes and a single-strand beaded necklace, the hair swept up in a chignon with two knotted plaits falling over the shoulders, the left arm holding a ruyi scepter and leaning on a tripod armrest, the back impressed with a double-gourd seal reading He Chaozong

There is a chip and a flake loss to the front right side of the robe's edge. The interior of the figure has vertical firing cracks on the sides, which are visible on the exterior under the glaze, as a 7-cm crack on the back left side of the robe and for 2 cm on the right side of the robe. Otherwise there are scattered minor firing imperfections and minor wear.
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Compare with a similar example illustrated in P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, London, 1969, pl. 144A and from the author's collection; and a Guanyin signed He Chaozhong, with similar facial expression but hooded, formerly in the J.M. Hu Collection, included in An Exhibition of Te Hua Porcelain, Art Gallery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1975, cat. no. 77, and sold at Christie's New York, 15th September 2009, lot 408.