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Figure (Guanyin)
1680-1700
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Dehua; Fujian; China; Asia
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Museum Object Number
2001.0029.031
Credit Line/Donor
Gift of Leo A. and Doris C. Hodroff
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Object Number
2001.0029.031
Object Name
Figure (Guanyin)
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Dehua; Fujian; China; Asia
Date
1680-1700
Mark/Signature/Inscription/Label
Type: Label
Location: Base
Inscription: Green and white, circular paper label with "<typed>Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection/ 348" in black ink
Type: Label
Location: Base
Inscription: White, rectangular paper label with "STATUETTE- 7" HT./ SEATED BODHISATTVA/ W/PEARL- CHINESE/ BLANC DE CHINE PORC./ MING DYNASTY 348" handwritten in extremely faded black and red ink
Mark/Signature: No
Subject(s)
- Religious imagery
- Archaeological evidence for similar (America)
Materials
- Porcelain (hard-paste)
- Lime (alkaline) glaze
Techniques
- Molded
Dimensions (inches)
7.402 (H) x 3.74 (W) x 2.913 (D)
Dimensions (centimeters)
18.8 (H) x 9.5 (W) x 7.4 (D)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Book: Howard, David Sanctuary. 1994 The Choice of the Private Trader: The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain Illustrated from the Hodroff Collection.
• Similar Guanyin: pp. 250 (Fig. 297)Book: Ferguson, Patricia. 2016 Ceramics: 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces.
• Guanyin and Dehua figures in early English collections: pp. 26-27, showing 1640-90 example.Book: Sheaf, Colin & Kilburn, Richard. 1988 The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes: The Complete Record.
• Three differently modeled blanc-de-Chine Guanyins found with Hatcher Wreck (1643-46), South China Sea: p. 72, pl. 112Book: Castelluccio, Stephanie. 2013 Collecting Chinese and Japanese Porcelain in Pre-Revolutionary Paris.
• Different models of Guanyin: pp. 107, 110-11, 170-71, figs. 93-94, 141, 17th-century. See p. 107 for 1717 Entrecolle remarks re Guanyin (Kuan in).