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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ELAINE PROVENANCE Jay C Le 1962
LUSTIG COHEN
Collection of Jay C. Le , Uniontown,
A LARGE CAST-IRON HEAD OF Pennsylvania, until 1962.
GUANYIN
YUAN / EARLY MING DYNASTY Compare a number of similarly cast smaller
heads of Guanyin, including one formerly in
the bodhisattva with serene expression, the the collection of The Asian Art Museum of San
eyelids lowered between long pendulous ears, the Francisco, sold in these rooms, 18th October
eyebrows, lips and mustache outlined with thin 1974, lot 32; another from the collection of
raised lines, the hair also lined and dressed at the Felix Guggenheim, o ered in these rooms, 1st
front in overlapping curls, a platform around the May 1978, lot 64; and another, complete with
chignon on the top of the head pierced for the the original diadem, illustrated by Alan Priest,
attachment of a diadem, stand (2) Chinese Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of
Height 17⅛ in., 43.4 cm Art, New York, 1944, pl. CXXIII.
$ 15,000-20,000
Lot 547 in the home of Elaine Lustig Cohen, circa 1964
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