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A DEHUA FIGURE OF MANJUSRI
SEATED ON A LION

REPUBLIC PERIOD, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

The elegant figure is shown seated on a lion and
wearing loose robes falling to the exposed left foot,
with hair separated into two knots which rest on
either shoulder and holding a tied scroll in the
right hand and rosary beads in the left. The back is
impressed with a double-gourd Dehua mark and
a square seal mark Xu Yunlin zhi, ‘made by Xu
Yunlin’.
17 æ in. (45.6 cm.) high

HK$400,000-600,000
US$52,000-78,000

Manjusri (Wenshu), the Bodhisattva of wisdom,
is usually shown seated on a lion and is often
depicted in a triad with the Buddha Shakyamuni and
Samantabhadra.
Compare, a smaller ((34.3 cm. high) but similarly
modelled Dehua figure of Manjusri seated on a lion
formerly in the Robert H. Ellsworth Collection sold at
Christie’s New York, 19 March 2015, lot 408.

民國 德化白釉文殊騎獅像
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