A Chinese blanc de Chine Guanyin,
18th/19th century, seated with his right hand resting on his right knee, his left elbow resting on a beaded armrest with claw foot, a scroll to his left hand, his robe spreading to the ground around him, four, character stamped mark Boji Yuren to the back,
23.5cm high, in a silk-lined box

Literature: The impressed seal mark 'Boji Yuren' translates as 'virtue extends to all, including fishermen' - for figures bearing the same seal mark, see 'Blanc de, Chine: Divine Images in Porcelain' by J Ayers, pp.117-120, pls.68-71.

A similar blanc-de-chine figure of Guanyin with the same mark, sold at Christie's New York on 17-18 September 2015, lot 2171.

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