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A TANG STYLE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN, shown standing atop a lotus socle surmounting a bracket-form base incised allover with an inscription, holding a fly whisk in one hand and an ambrosia bottle in the other, and wearing a beaded necklace and diaphanous scarf-draped skirt, the hair drawn up through a hood and into a topknot backed by the flame-form mandorla, some green encrustation - 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm.) high
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A TANG STYLE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN, shown standing atop a lotus socle surmounting a bracket-form base incised allover with an inscription, holding a fly whisk in one hand and an ambrosia bottle in the other, and wearing a beaded necklace and diaphanous scarf-draped skirt, the hair drawn up through a hood and into a topknot backed by the flame-form mandorla, some green encrustation - 5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm.) high