IMPORTANTE SCULPTURE DE GUANYIN EN BOIS POLYCHROME

CHINE, DYNASTIE YUAN, XIVÈME SIECLE

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IMPORTANTE SCULPTURE DE GUANYIN EN BOIS POLYCHROME
CHINE, DYNASTIE YUAN, XIVème SIECLE
Représentée assise en rajalilasana, la posture de l'aise royale, le bras gauche servant d'appui, le droit nonchalamment posé sur son genoux droit, portant un vêtement souple aux plis harmonieux, noué sous la taille et découvrant le torse orné d'un pectoral, le visage serein, les yeux incrustés de billes de verre, les cheveux coiffés en chignon et parés d'un diadème, la surface recouverte d'une polychromie ocre, rouge et verte
Hauteur: 96 cm. (37¾ in.)

Provenance

Freddy Henson, Copenhagen, 1979

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A LARGE POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF SEATED GUANYIN
CHINA, YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY

Lot Essay

In Buddhist sculpture this particular posture appears to be distinctive to Chinese Buddhist art and was a well adopted sculptural formula in China between 10th and 14th centuries. Buddhist sculptures modeled in this form often reffers to the "Water-Moon Guanyin". The name is a reference to Guanyin residing at Mount Potalaka on the southern coast of India and the imagery was introduced into China with the translation of the Avatamsaka Sutra in the 5th century.
A comparable figure of Guanyin published in Chinese Sculptures in the von der Heydt Collection, Osvald Siren, Zurich 1959, p.158 and 159.

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