CHINE, DYNASTIE MING (1368-1644)

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STATUE DE GUANYIN EN BRONZE DORE
CHINE, DYNASTIE MING (1368-1644)
Représentée assise en rajalilasana sur un lotus émergeant d'un socle héxagonal, un enfant assis sur son genou gauche, la main droite tenant un lotus et posée sur son genou droit, vêtue d'une longue robe, parée de bijoux, coiffée d'une couronne rehaussée d'une représentation d'Amitabha, le visage serein
Hauteur: 36 cm. (14 1/8 in.)

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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN
CHINA, MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)

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Lot Essay

Compare a larger figure (66 cm. high) seated in lalitasana and holding in front a standing child, from the Chang Foundation, illustrated in Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taibei, 1993, no. 40; where the author relates that according to Buddhist text, iconographic images of this type were worshipped for the fulfillment of virtuous sons and beautiful daughters.
See a figure from 16th/17th century with the same iconography sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 29 April 2002, lot 1741

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