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AN IMPERIAL GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF This superbly cast Imperial gilt-bronze eleven-headed form
ELEVEN-HEADED AVALOKITESHVARA of the popular bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara has long been
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY regarded as the patron deity of Tibet, and has been revered
in China from the late Ming dynasty through the Qing. For
the standing deity cast with eight arms and eleven heads, another eighteenth century Qing dynasty eleven-headed
arranged in three tiers, surmounted by one head with a Avalokiteshvara, see Ulrich von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan
wrathful countenance topped by a small head of Amitabha, the Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, p. 553, pl. 158C.
principal hands held in anjalimudra, the other six fanned out,
one holding a kundika, the figure adorned with jewellery with a
deer skin draped over the left shoulder and clad in a shawl and
a two-layered dhoti with finely chased borders, all raised on an
oval lotus pedestal with beaded edges
17.2 cm, 6¾ in.
HK$ 180,000-250,000
US$ 23,100-32,000
清十八世紀 鎏金銅十一面觀音菩薩像
IMPORTANT CHINESE ART 309
