BF98
Further images
The Goddess of Mercy shown standing upon a hollow moulded base of clouds, with downcast eyes and a peaceful expression, she has elongated earlobes and is draped in layered robes, her long hair styled high beneath an elaborate headdress with a diadem bearing an image of Amitabha Buddha, stars pendent from pearls on her breast and skirt, the body of very thick porcelain with an ivory white glaze, with toes emerging from beneath her robes and hands held loosely in front, part of the back, draped cloak and the headdress with cold enamel painting in red.
Literature
The Augustus the Strong Collection at the Porzellansammlung in Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, has a number of similar figures, also with traces cold painting and dated to the Kangxi period. For examples, see inventory numbers PO 2912; PO 2913; and PO 2907.
There are two similar figures, also with cold painting but of smaller proportions, in the Royal Collection, London, displayed in the King’s Great Bedchamber at Hampton Court Palace (collection numbers RCIN 1011 and RCIN 1012). These are dated early in the Kangxi period, 1660 – 1690, and are illustrated in C&J : Ayers, J., 2016. Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen. 3 vols., London – C&J 300.
