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A LARGE SOAPSTONE FIGURE OF GUANYIN
19TH CENTURY
Carved in a standing position with body swayed to one side, holding a scroll in her right hand while wrapping her full, cloud-incised robes around her with her left, her head turned as if to look at the Buddhistic lion playing at her feet, and her hair dressed in a high topknot and two knotted plaits highlighted in black and partially covered by a scarf, the mottled stone of buff and brown color--20in. (50.8cm.) high, wood stand
19TH CENTURY
Carved in a standing position with body swayed to one side, holding a scroll in her right hand while wrapping her full, cloud-incised robes around her with her left, her head turned as if to look at the Buddhistic lion playing at her feet, and her hair dressed in a high topknot and two knotted plaits highlighted in black and partially covered by a scarf, the mottled stone of buff and brown color--20in. (50.8cm.) high, wood stand