A similar gilt-bronze figure, dated circa 1400, with a narrow waist and pendent jewels from the Oppenheim Collection and now in the British Museum was included in the Exhibition, Buddhism: Art and Faith, London, 1985, Zwalf (Ed.), Catalogue, no. 298, it is also illustrated by von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, no. 143D, where the figure is referred to as 'Water-Moon Guanyin' and by Hai-Wai Yie Chen, Chinese Art in Overseas Collections, Buddhist Sculpture, II, pl. 162. It was popular to depict such figures seated rajalilasana, royal ease, in the 10th and 14th centuries, Zwalf (Ed.), op. cit., p. 207.

A slightly larger Avalokitesvara (33 cm. high) in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The Avery Brundage Collection, dated to the 14th century is illustrated in Gems of Chinese Art, pl. 111 where the authors mention that the figure in this pose was also known as the Alalokisvara of the Southern Seas. Another similar but smaller figure (18cm. high) in the the Museum of Eastern Art, Oxford, was included in the O.C.S. exhibition, The Arts of the Song Dynasty, and illustrated in T.O.C.S., 1959-1960, no. 236.

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