Lot Essay
Although the legs of this figure are missing, they would appear to have be in a pendent position
The manner in which the robes, the beaded necklace and the foliate crown are carved is similar to that of a wood figure of Puxian, dated Yuan/Early Ming, in the Avery Brundage Collection, The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated by d'Argencé, Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture, Japan, 1974, no. 149. Compare, also, the far more slender figure of Guanyin in the Victoria and Albert Museum, dated to the Song Dynasty, which wears very similar robes and beaded necklace, a five-part, foliate crown and which shares the same, stiff, upright posture and also has its legs in a pendent position. From the position of the arms, it appears that the now missing hands might have been similarly held to those of the figure being offere. See Chinese Art in Overseas Collections, Buddhist Sculpture (II), Taiwan, 1990, p. 161, no. 152
The manner in which the robes, the beaded necklace and the foliate crown are carved is similar to that of a wood figure of Puxian, dated Yuan/Early Ming, in the Avery Brundage Collection, The Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated by d'Argencé, Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture, Japan, 1974, no. 149. Compare, also, the far more slender figure of Guanyin in the Victoria and Albert Museum, dated to the Song Dynasty, which wears very similar robes and beaded necklace, a five-part, foliate crown and which shares the same, stiff, upright posture and also has its legs in a pendent position. From the position of the arms, it appears that the now missing hands might have been similarly held to those of the figure being offere. See Chinese Art in Overseas Collections, Buddhist Sculpture (II), Taiwan, 1990, p. 161, no. 152