Dehua Guanyin in Gold-Toned Robes

The gold-toned robe is brightest from the front, where it gathers light across the broad folds before meeting a pink lotus and blue-green waves. From behind, the robe returns to white porcelain. That shift makes the sculpture feel materially different as the viewer moves around it.

Guanyin embodies compassion and the promise that suffering will be heard. The radiant robe gives that spiritual role a more public, celebratory expression, making this version especially suited to a formal altar, entry console or place of family gathering. For devotees, it can carry wishes for mercy, protection and harmony within the home.

Choose this treatment when quiet white porcelain would recede too far into the setting. The gold-toned face of the robe holds light and attention, while the white reverse preserves the material identity of Dehua porcelain. Four heights range from 31 to 45.5 cm. A 2.5 cm opening beneath the base may be incorporated according to personal devotional tradition.

• Origin: Dehua, Fujian, China
• Material: Glazed Dehua porcelain with a gold-toned painted robe and polychrome base
• Figure: Seated Guanyin on lotus and waves
• Base opening: 2.5 cm / 1.0 in
• 31 cm size: 31.0 cm H × 18.0 cm W × 16.5 cm D / 12.2 in H × 7.1 in W × 6.5 in D
• 35.5 cm size: 35.5 cm H × 21.0 cm W × 21.0 cm D / 14.0 in H × 8.3 in W × 8.3 in D
• 42 cm size: 42.0 cm H × 22.0 cm W × 21.5 cm D / 16.5 in H × 8.7 in W × 8.5 in D
• 45.5 cm size: 45.5 cm H × 27.5 cm W × 25.0 cm D / 17.9 in H × 10.8 in W × 9.8 in D
• Dimensions are hand measured; slight variation is expected