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A RARE INLAID GILT-BRONZE
INSCRIBED FIGURE OF ELEVEN-HEADED
AVALOKITESVARA
DATED KANGXI CYCLICAL XINWEI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1691
AND OF THE PERIOD
The figure is well cast with twenty-four arms and eleven heads,
with two pairs of arms aross the front, the lower pair held together,
the upper pair in anjali mudra, with eighteen radiating arms holding
various attributes, and the final pair of arms extending above
the heads holding the Amitabha Buddha seated on a lotus base,
all above a lotus base with an incised inscription on the reverse
containing the date of commission, the eighth month of Kangxi
xinwei year, and the name of the commissioner, Lady Gao of the
Jin family.
19 ¡ in. (49.3 cm.) high
HK$2,000,000-3,000,000 US$260,000-390,000

清康熙辛未年（1691）
鎏金銅鑲嵌十一面二十四臂觀音立像

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