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49 For a similar example in the Palace Museum Collection, see
Zangchuan Fojiao Zaoxiang-Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu
A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF ELEVEN-HEADED Zhenpin Quanji, Hong Kong, 2008, p. 216, no. 206. Others were
AVALOKITESHVARA sold at Koller Auctions, Zurich, 2 June 2015, lot 126; Christie’s, New
Qing, 18th century York, 21 March 2012, lot 811; and Sotheby’s, New York, 21/22 March
1990, lot 610 and 21 September 2007, lot 60.
Clad in a richly gilt two-layered dhoti and antelope skin, his primary
hands in anjali mudra while others hold the kundika and lotus among
prescribed attributes, his crowned faces with serene expressions rising
to the penultimate wrathful head below that of Amitabha.
8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm) high
$8,000 - 12,000
清十八世紀 銅鎏金十一面觀世音菩薩像 Referenced
HAR - himalayanart.org/items/33027
Provenance
Private New York Collection, acquired in Europe before 1983
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