A LARGE POLYCHROMED WOOD FIGURE OF GUANYIN

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A LARGE POLYCHROMED WOOD FIGURE OF GUANYIN
14TH/15TH CENTURY

Standing on a lotus base, wearing a skirt belted at the waist and a loose, flowing robe open at the chest revealing a beaded festoon necklace, the head bearing a cinquefoil foliate crown, the central panel with the figure of Amitabha seated in dhyanasana, the robes with traces of pigment and gilding representing elaborate brocade, some damage--82in. (205cm.) high

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Compare a large wood figure of Guanyin in the Rietberg Museum, Zurich, illustrated by Siren, Chinese Sculpture in the von der Heydt Collection, Catalogue no. 62; and another standing figure of Guanyin from the Eumorfopoulos Collection now in the Victoria & Albert Museum, accession number 62-1937. A similar example is illustrated by Siren, Studien zur Chinesischen Plastik der Post-T'angzeit, Ostasiatis Zeitschift 1927-8, Berlin, 1928, pl. 6, no. 19. Yet another similar standing example is illustrated by Eskenazi, Ancient Chinese Sculpture, December, 1981, Catalogue no. 16