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18TH CENTURY
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A SMALL BAMBOO CARVING OF GUANYIN
18TH CENTURY
The figure standing with right hand raised in abhayamudra with the thumb and middle finger touching, and the left hand holding a scroll, wearing a lotus necklace and long layered robes falling in graceful folds and tied with a long tassle-hung cord, the face carved with gentle expression and the hair drawn up into a high topknot secured with a ruyi-tipped hair pin
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) high
18TH CENTURY
The figure standing with right hand raised in abhayamudra with the thumb and middle finger touching, and the left hand holding a scroll, wearing a lotus necklace and long layered robes falling in graceful folds and tied with a long tassle-hung cord, the face carved with gentle expression and the hair drawn up into a high topknot secured with a ruyi-tipped hair pin
7 3/8 in. (18.7 cm.) high
Provenance
R. Soame Jenyns Collection.
Spink & Son Ltd., London.
Spink & Son Ltd., London.
Exhibited
London, Spink & Son Ltd., Bamboo & Wood Carvings of China and the East, 14 - 29 November 1979, p. 39, no. 144.