A LACQUERED AND GILT-WOOD FIGURE OF GUANYIN

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A LACQUERED AND GILT-WOOD FIGURE OF GUANYIN
17TH CENTURY

Seated with the right knee slightly raised supporting the right hand holding a scroll, leaning to one side resting against the left hand concealed under voluminous robe gathered at the waist and falling in undulating folds around the legs, the hair swept up into a double-knot partially covered by a cowl (age cracks infilled)
14 1/4 in. (36 cm.) high

Lot Essay

The result of radio-carbon dating, University of Arizona AA-25641, is consistent with the dating of this lot.

A similarly seated wood Guanyin holding beads in the right hand, decorated with gold lacquer is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated Zhongguo Meishi Quanji, vol. 6, no. 151.

(US$7,000-9,000)

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