Blanc-de-Chine porcelain. China, late Qing Dynasty, 19th cent. to Republic
(1644-1911)
In the “relaxed“ seated pose lilasana, Guanyin thrones with defined, tall, straight upper body. She is the child-bearing mother deity of China, in Buddhism, the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. Her robe is richly pleated, jewelry on the breast and high chignon covered by a scarf.
HEIGHT 12,5 CM
From a German collection, acquired in the 1920′s at Kleykamp in the Haag