A LARGE BLANC DE CHINE FIGURES OF GUANYIN WITH PRINCE SUDANA...

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Hammer

£250

A LARGE BLANC DE CHINE FIGURES OF GUANYIN WITH PRINCE SUDANA VISTING AT MT POTALAK,
LATE QING TO REPUBLIC PERIOD
晚清/民国德化童子拜观音像
a large Blanc de Chine figure of Guanyin was seated on the Putou mountain with to the lower right side Prince Sudana from Indian (as a small child) visiting her seeking for enlightenment.
Late Qing dynasty / Republic period
35cm High

Provenance: English Private Collection
Note:
Guanyin, the Chinese name of the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, the compassionate saviour in Buddhism, was originally worshipped in the form of an Indian prince. Beginning in the Song period (960–1279), however, the Chinese transformed the bodhisattva into the Goddess of Mercy, depicted as a beautiful Chinese woman.
In the Buddhist scripture the Garland Sutra (Huayan jing), the devout youth Sudhana visited fifty-three teachers including Guanyin. He is shown here as the small child in the lower right attending the goddess at Mount Potalaka (or Putuo Island) in the southern sea, which was considered a spiritual abode of Guanyin.