China, 1644-1912. The deity and child show peaceful expressions with downcast eyes and benevolent smiles and are standing on a base modeled as a cliff with swirling waves and lotus flowers under Guanyin, dressed in a voluminous robe and a bejeweled necklace over her entire body.
Condition: One old repair on the child’s hands, small firing cracks, minuscule chipping and losses. Provenance: From the collection of Georg Weifert (1850-1937). Thence by descent in the same family. Weifert was a Serbo-Austrian industrialist and the first governor of the Federal Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.