A CHINESE BLANC DE CHINE FIGURE OF GUANYIN 19TH/20TH CENTURY Seated on a lotus flower with her hands resting upon her raised knee, with her finely combed hair falling over her shoulders, all supported on an octagonal lotus base, the back impressed with a square He Chao Zong seal mark and a gourd-shaped mark reading De Hua, 32.3cm. Provenance: from an English private collection, Cheshire, acquired in the UK in the 1990s.