Guanyin figure secures highest Chinese art sum in latest regional auction series
Dehua blanc de chine figures of Guanyin – the goddess of compassion, protector of mariners and bringer of sons – often carry the impressed double gourd seal of the great 16th or 17th century ceramicist He Chaozong.
Most are honorific pieces produced in late 19th to the early 20th century but a small handful of th…