Lot 813
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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF STANDING GUANYIN
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF STANDING GUANYIN
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF STANDING GUANYIN
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Important Chinese Art from a North American Private Collection
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF STANDING GUANYIN

SUI-EARLY TANG DYNASTY, 6TH-7TH CENTURY

Details
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF STANDING GUANYIN
SUI-EARLY TANG DYNASTY, 6TH-7TH CENTURY
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high, cloth box
Provenance
Chang Foundation Collection, Taipei, by 1993.
Literature
Chang Foundation, Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993, pp. 70-1, no. 28.
Chang Foundation, Chinese Treasures from the Chang Foundation, Tokyo, 2001, p. 78, no. 86.
Exhibited
Taipei, Chang Foundation, Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, 1993, no. 28.
Tokyo, Shoto Museum of Art; Obihiro, Hokkaidoritsu Obihiro Art Museum; Shimonoseki, Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Chinese Treasures from the Chang Foundation, May-October 2001, no. 86.

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Lot Essay

The graceful, slightly swayed stance and style of the clothing and adornment seen on this figure are typical of the depiction of bodhisattvas during the Sui-early Tang period. Two comparable figures are illustrated by Jin Shen in Hai wai ji Gang Yai cang li dai fo xiang: zhen ping ji nian tu jian (Catalogue of Treasures of Buddhist Sculpture in Overseas Collections Including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Shanxi, 2007, p. 479. See, also, the comparable gilt-bronze bodhisattva dated to the Sui dynasty sold in Treasures of the Noble Path: Early Buddhist Art from Japanese Collections; Christie’s New York, 14 September 2017, lot 817.

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