A PAINTED AND GILT-LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA SEATED ON A DRAGON

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A PAINTED AND GILT-LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA SEATED ON A DRAGON
EARLY MING DYNASTY

Simhanadavalokitesvera seated in maharajalilasana wearing loosely draped robes covered in gilt lacquer and painted red where the lining is visible, the well carved oval face framed by the blue-painted hair and the red ribbons trailing from the five-part foliate crown centered by the figure of Amitabha, the recumbent dragon with head swiveled around and mouth open, its body decorated with red blotches and black dots on a yellowish-buff ground and its chest striped in red, pink, white and the same yellowish buff, cracks and losses
44½in. (113cm. ) high approximately, wood stand

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Compare a similar wood sculpture of the bodhisattva Simhanada seated on a qilin, included in the exhibition, Sculpture and ornament in early Chinese art, Eskenazi, London, June 11 - July 13, 1996, Catalogue, p. 70, no. 33

It is more usual to find wood carvings of this size depicting the bodhisattva Wenshu, seated on a lion, such as the example illustrated by John H. Seto, Handbook of the Oriental Collection, Birmingham Museum of Art, 1988, no. 66 or the bodhisattva Puxian seated on an elephant, exemplified by the sculpture in the Avery Brundage Collection and illustrated by d'Argencé, Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture, Japan, 1974, no. 149