A FINE GILT-BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF AVALOKITESVARA

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A FINE GILT-BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF AVALOKITESVARA
16TH CENTURY

The figure cast seated in vajrasana, the right hand in vitarka mudra holding a willow branch and supporting an ambrosia flask in the upturned left palm, wearing a five-leaf diadem accommodating the Amitabha, the voluminous robe opened at the chest to expose elaborate beaded jewellery chains suspended from a central medallion, the separately cast circular lotus base raised by a detachable cylindrical column from a galleried elongated hexagonal base
13 1/8 in. (33.3 cm.) high

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Compare to a larger example (62.4 cm. high) of 16th/17th century date from the Chang Foundation, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 37.

(US$8,000-10,000)

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