A RARE DRY LACQUER FIGURE OF GUANYIN

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A RARE DRY LACQUER FIGURE OF GUANYIN
SONG/YUAN DYNASTY (960-1368)

The slender figure modelled with the left hand resting on the corresponding leg seated in rajalilasana, the head slightly tilted to one side to give an expression of contemplation, hair swept in a topknot reserving two strands falling onto the bare shoulders, adorned with beaded jewellery chains across the chest and detailed with armlets, dressed in a sash tied over the left shoulder, the dhoti fastened with a bow across the narrow waist, rendered in multiple folds around the folded legs (old losses, some repair and overpainting)
18 1/8 in. (46 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Previously sold in our New York Rooms, 20 November 1979, lot 383.

Dry lacquer sculptures are comparatively fragile as their body core material is constructed of fabric such as ramie. A comparable seated Bodhisattva from the Mount Trust, is illustrated in 'The Arts of the Sung Dynasty', O.C.S. Transactions, 1959-60, vol. 32, fig. 292.

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