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Description:
Dehua blanc de Chine porcelain figure of Guanyin, Goddess of Mercy. Hollow cream-white porcelain figure covered in a milk-white glaze, except the base rim which is left unglazed. The figurine is glazed on the inside.
Guanyin is seated with her right knee raised, wearing a long flowing robe and a pectoral. Her hair is worn in a coiled style with a hair ornament visible above her forehead.
Source: 1972. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham. London: Oxford University Press, p. 50Legeza, I.L.
Relational references:
Legeza, I.L. 1972. Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm Macdonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics in the Gulbenkian Museum of Oriental Art and Archaeology, University of Durham. London: Oxford University Press| Object details | |
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| Type of object: | statuette |
| Type category: | Sculpture in the round |
| Material: | Porcelain |
| Width: | 15 cm |
| Height: | 24 cm |
| Depth: | 13 cm |
| Origin | |
| Style/Period: | statuette |
| Date range: | early 18th century CE |
| Discovery site: | statuette |
| Environment: | |
| Creator | |
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| Personal name: | - |
| Role: | - |
| Culture: | Chinese |
| Record data | |
| Artworld id: | 00141 |
| Current accession number: | 1969.126 |
| Former accession number: | MacDonald cat. |
| Credit line: | - |
| Recorded by: | LW |
| Record date: | Mon, 2nd Sep 2002 |
| Copyright: | Copyright© by the Oriental Museum, University of Durham, Durham, 2002. All Rights reserved |