A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA

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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
MING DYNASTY

Cast seated in vajrasana, with hands held in dhyanamudra, wearing loose robes open at the chest and falling in soft folds onto the lotus base supported on a shaped hexagonal plinth, his broad face with downcast eys and benevolent expression framed by short curled beard and pendulous lobes, wearing a single-band headress with finial of the Amitabha Buddha, the gilding softly worn to an attractive sheen--8¼in. (21cm.) high

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A gilt-bronze figure of a seated Guanyin in the Avery Brundage Collection, The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, dated to the Ming Dynasty, wears a very similar diadem and is illustrated by d'Argencé, Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture, Japan, 1974, pl. 157