A LARGE DEHUA FIGURE OF A SEATED GUANYIN IMPRESSED WITH A HE CHAOZONG 何朝宗 CALABASH SHAPED SEAL MARK China, Fujian, Dehua, Qing Dynasty, 18th to 19th century The goddess of mercy is depicted seated in rajalalisana, the hands in ardhachandra mudra, next to her a basket together with a fish. Two impressed seal to her back, one of calabash form reading He Chaozong Yin, the other of square shape reading Xuande. Offered at auction together with a wooden lotus stand. H (with stand): 30,5 cm - H (without stand): 24,5 cm - w: 13,5 cm - depth: 10,3 cm Provenance: > Private collection; > Señor Jorge Casares, Buenos Aires, Argentina, a reputed ornithologist born in a wealthy landowning family, also a relative of the renowned Argentinian fiction author Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) and a fellow of W.H. Hudson (1921-1982), an Argentinian-borned British Naturalist and Ornithologist. He is praised to have donated his library to the Sociedad Ornitológica del Plata. 带有何朝宗葫芦形印的大型德化观音坐像 中国福建德化，清朝，18到19世纪