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AN INSCRIBED AND DATED STONE FIGURE
OF GUANYIN
NORTHERN ZHOU DYNASTY, INSCRIBED WITH A DATE CORRESPONDING
TO AD572 AND OF THE PERIOD
The bodhisattva is depicted seated in bhadrasana on a double-lotus
pedestal, the left hand in varadamudra, crowned with a tiara with trailing
ribbons, and wearing a long robe bedecked with elaborate beaded
necklaces and ornaments, the head framed by a flame-carved mandorla, all
supported on an inscribed rectangular plinth, with traces of red pigment
throughout.
12¿ in. (30.8 cm.) high, box
HK$550,000-750,000 US$72,000-97,000

PROVENANCE
Yamanaka & Co., Ltd., London, 9 March 1928
Collection of J. Lionberger Davis, St. Louis, Missouri
Estate of G. Vieter & Maude O. Davis
Sold at Sotheby’s New York, 20 September 2000, lot 55
Sold at Christie’s New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1300
The inscription states that this Guanyin image was commissioned during the
first year of the Jiande reign of the Northern Zhou dynasty, corresponding to
AD 572, by a devotee surnamed Guo, and is dedicated to his entire family.

北周建德元年（572 年） 石雕觀世音立像
來源
山中商會，倫敦，1928 年 3 月 9 日
J. Lionberger Davis 珍藏，聖路易斯
G. Vieter & Maude O. Davis 大宅珍藏
紐約蘇富比，2000 年 9 月 20 日，拍品 55 號
紐約佳士得，2011 年 3 月 24 日，拍品 1300 號

題記：建德元年十月廿三日，郭元□為七世父母敬造觀世音像一區，法華眾生
等同□□：母□德妻次男妻□次子妻王淇□□息□□息石□息石良□石□弟□
和父□光

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