AN UNUSUAL AMETHYST BEIJING GLASS FIGURE OF GUANYIN

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AN UNUSUAL AMETHYST BEIJING GLASS FIGURE OF GUANYIN
19TH CENTURY

Molded in a standing position with hands clasped at the waist, dressed in long-sleeved layered robes carved with stylized scroll borders, her face with benign expression below a high topknot, the translucent glass of deep purple tone in imitation of amethyst quartz - 10 3/4 in. (27.3 cm.) high

Lot Essay

A nearly identical example, but of transparent blue glass, is in the Clague Collection, illustrated by Brown and Rabiner in the Catalogue, Phoenix Art Museum, 1987, p. 49, no. 52, where the authors cite an amber-colored example in the British Museum collection, illustrated by Harold Newman, Illustrated Dictionary of Glass, London, 1977, no. 175