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A rare olive-green soapstone figure of a Guanyin on a lotus base
Qing dynasty, probably 17th CenturyOn a separate lotus pedestal base, with naturalistically bending petal tips with russet highlights, the Guanyin figure of overall pyramidal form with wide base, seated with her hands cupped at her folded legs, her robes edged in floral and chevron hems, an under blouse tied at her chest and incised with flowers and lotus, traces of red pigment to her lips and ears, the hair neatly delineated and, like her eyes and brows, are highlighted in black and tied in a high chignon under a cowl, the reverse side with further sashes and robe folds. 10 5/8in (26.8cm) high, the figure exclusively, 12 7/8in (32.7cm) high overall
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清 壽山石觀音坐像PROVENANCERoger Keverne, London (un-dated receipt)來源Roger Keverne, 倫敦A similar though smaller figure of Guanyin set in a shrine with attendant figures and dated seventeenth century and most importantly listed in the 1721 inventory of Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, is illustrated by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, in a paper entitled 'Changing Attitudes Towards Ethnographic Material:Re-Discovering The Soapstone Collection of Augustus the Strong' in Abhandlungen und Berichte des Staatlichen Museums fur Volkerkunde Dresden, No.48, Frankfurt/Maine, 1994, p. 54, pl. 41a & b.
