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A RARE AND FINELY CAST GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF AVALOKITESHVARA
17TH-18TH CENTURY
The bodhisattva is shown seated with the principal pair of hands are clasped at the chest in anjali mudra,
and twelve further pairs of hands, which once held various attributes, arrayed around the body. The
principal head is fanked by two smaller, sideways-facing heads, each with an urna in the forehead, all
below a fve-petaled crown enclosing the hair upswept into a double topknot. Together with a circular
gilt-bronze lotus base, 17th-18th century, decorated with layered, overlapping lotus petals.
Figure 7Ω in. (19 cm.) high; base 2¡ in. (6 cm.) high
$100,000-150,000
PROVENANCE
Private collection, France, acquired in the frst half of the 20th century, and thence by descent.
清十七／十八世紀 鎏金銅三面千手觀音坐像
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