A LARGE POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF WATER MOON GUANYIN
A LARGE POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF WATER MOON GUANYIN
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A LARGE POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF WATER MOON GUANYIN

18TH CENTURY OR LATER

Details
A LARGE POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF WATER MOON GUANYIN
18TH CENTURY OR LATER
37 ¾ in. (96 cm.) high
Provenance
Freddy Henson, Copenhagen, 1979
Sold at Christie's Paris, 15 June 2005, lot 319
Sale room notice
The dating of this lot should be: 18th century or later.
本拍品之定年應爲十八世紀或以後。

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Lot Essay

Buddhist sculptures modelled in this form are known as 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 is published in Osvald Sirén, Chinese Sculptures in the von der Heydt Collection, Zürich, 1959, pp.158-159. See, for example the depiction of the bodhisattva in an anonymous painting attributed to the Song to Yuan dynasty, sold at Hong Kong Sotheby's, 6 October 2019, lot 2569.

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