A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN

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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN
TANG DYNASTY

Shown standing with body swayed slightly to the left, an amphora held in the pendent right hand and a lotus bud raised to shoulder level in the left, wearing a softly draped dhoti, necklaces and long beaded chain falling to just above the feet, the hair dressed in a high topknot and hung with long ribbons trailing to the lotus-socle base, with two pierced tabs projecting from below the octagonal rim--5 7/8in. (15cm.) high, stand

拍品專文

A gilt-bronze figure of a bodhisattva of comparable size, holding a fly whisk and bottle and standing on a very similar pedestal, is in a Japanese collection. See Chugoku no kondo butsu (Special Exhibition of Chinese Gilt Bronze Statues of Buddhism from Japanese Collections), (Nara: Yamato Bunkakan, 1992), no. 60