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A GILT-BRONZE STANDING
FIGURE OF ELEVEN-
HEADED AVALOKITESVARA
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The eight-armed deity is depicted standing
on a large lotus base, with her primary hands
held in namaskara mudra and the remaining
arms outstretched in various mudras,
some holding attributes. The bodhisattva
is dressed in loose robes, adorned with
jewels with small malachite and coral-inset
cabochons and a celestial scarf draped over
her shoulders.
14¡ in. (36.5 cm.) high
HK$1,200,000-2,000,000
US$160,000-260,000
The eleven-headed form of the bodhisattva
Avalokitesvara was highly revered from the
late Ming dynasty through the Qing Dynasty.
Compare to a fourty-eight-armed figure dated
to the Qing Dynasty in the Staatliche Museen
Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ethnologisches
Museum, museum number: 37174; and a
seven-headed twenty-four-armed gilt-bronze
figure dated to 16th-17th century in the Chang
Foundation, illustrated by James Spencer,
Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993,
pp. 86-87, no. 36. Another eleven-headed
Avalokitesvara inscribed and dated to 1691 was
sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 November
2017, lot 2922.
This item can only be shipped to addresses within
Hong Kong or collected from our Hong Kong saleroom
and office.

清康熙 鎏金銅十一面觀音立像
此拍賣品只可運送至香港境內的地址或從我們的香
港拍賣場提取。

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