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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK COLLECTION
1782
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF FOUR-ARMED SHADAKSHARI
AVALOKITESHVARA
17TH-18TH CENTURY
The bodhisattva with benevolent expression is seated in dhyanasana on a
double-lotus base with the primary hands joined in a gesture of respectful
salutation, anjalimudra, and the other pair raised to each shoulder, and wears
a patterned dhoti, an animal skin draped over the shoulders, and multiple
necklaces. The hair is worn in a high chignon behind a fve-petaled crown and
is surmounted by a small Buddha head.
10Ω in. (26.7 cm.) high

$100,000-150,000

The four-armed Avalokitesvara is known as the Bodhisattva of Infnite Mercy.
A similar example of much larger size (29 in. high) from the Kangxi period
is in the Beijing Palace Museum collection, illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum-Buddhist Statues of Tibet,
Hong Kong, 2003, p. 237, pl. 226. A gilt-bronze fgure of Amitayus from the
Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, also dated to the Kangxi period,
exhibits a similar style of cascading ribbons with ends falling over the front
edge of the base to that seen on the present fgure, was sold at Christie’s
New York, 10 May 2018, lot 982.
清十七/十八世紀 銅鎏金四臂觀音坐像

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