Lot 48
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A Fine and Early Standing Figure of Juichimen Kannon [the Eleven-Headed Kannon]
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A Fine and Early Standing Figure of Juichimen Kannon [the Eleven-Headed Kannon]

LATE HEIAN/KAMAKURA PERIOD (12TH-13TH CENTURY)

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A Fine and Early Standing Figure of Juichimen Kannon [the Eleven-Headed Kannon]
Late Heian/Kamakura Period (12th-13th Century)
The carved wood and gold-lacquered figure standing with a lotus-plant and vase in her left hand, her right hand held downwards and facing outwards, her tall headpiece surmounted by a small additional head and drilled with holes for fixing nine smaller missing heads, the byakko inlaid in crystal, the body well balanced with the weight on the right hip, the robes carved in low relief and falling in stylised patterns over the thighs and lower legs; on a later carved, lacquered and assembled lotus pedestal, old damage and repairs
28 1/16in. (71.3cm.) high; with pedestal 33 15/16in. (86.2cm.)
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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

For a Heian-period example in bronze with comparable iconography (also lacking the nine smallest heads), see Tokyo Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan [Tokyo National Museum], Heian jidai no chokoku [Sculpture of the Heian period] (Kyoto, 1972), cat. no. 76

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