尺寸：不详
年代：17世纪 约1640年
质地：德化瓷
风格：中原
来源：拍卖会
成交：529,250英镑(2012.05)
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
約1640年 德化白瓷觀音像 「何朝宗印」款

Provenance: acquired from S.Marchant & Son, London, on 2 July 1999.

He Chaozong is considered to be one of the greatest master potters of Dehua figures, excelling at creating statues of Buddha, Guanyin and of immortals for palaces and temples. According to P.J.Donnelly, he was particularly devoted to Guanyin. By absorbing various techniques of clay modelling, wood tooling and stone carving, He Chaozong created his own method which became known as the He School. His works can be found in the collection of the Palace Museum in Beijing and in leading private collections and museums in Europe.

Compare a similar seated Guanyin figure bearing a He Chaozong mark, illustrated by P.J.Donnelly in Blanc De Chine: The Porcelain of Têhua in Fukien, New York, 1969, pl.150D, later in the Koger Collection. For another example see also R.Blumenfield, Blanc De Chine: The Great Porcelain of Dehua, California, 2002, p.130, fig.A.

A related blanc-de-Chine figure of Guanyin, signed He Chaozong, was sold in these rooms on 10 November 2011, lot 210.