A FINE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN

14TH CENTURY

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A FINE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN
14th Century
The bodhisattva finely cast and shown seated in rajalilasana with right forearm resting gracefully atop the raised right knee, wearing a beaded necklace with pendent chains overlaid with a sash tied diagonally across the slender torso, the scarf draped over the shoulders twined around the arms before falling down the sides onto the foliate-bordered skirt arranged in graceful folds around the legs, the face cast with serene expression framed by knotted tresses falling to the shoulders from the fillet encircling the head below the tall chignon, all but the face richly gilded
12.5/8in. (32cm.) high, stand

Lot Essay

Compare the similar gilt-bronze bodhisattva from the Oppenheim Collection and now in the British Museum included in the exhibition, Buddhism: Art and Faith, London, 1985, Catalogue, no. 298. The same figure is also illustrated in Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968, no. 9. Compare, also, the related figure in the Avery Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated in Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture, San Francisco, 1974, no. 154.