Compare the present lot with a very similar example, a carving of Avalokitesvara, originally part of the left standing figure at the Fuoding cave, now in the C.K. Chan collection, illustrated in Lost Statues of the Longmen Cave, p. 72, no. 79. Cf. a larger example (52 cm.) with a lotus diadem and also applied with pigments, from the Liangsheng Tang collection, illustrated in The Art of Contemplation, p. 181, no. 76. As well as a related example is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. II, 1976, no. 145.

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