17TH-19TH CENTURY

The impressed mark on the current figure, jin feng, is a seal frequently used by scholars in ancient times on their correspondence to indicate that a document had been sealed. This mark can be seen on a number of Dehua and Yixing wares, including a large Dehua seated figure of Maitreya mentioned by P.J. Donnelly in Blanc de Chine, New York, 1969, p. 256, where the author mistakenly identified the mark as wan bang, or 'all nations', at the time.