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A SMALL GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A
BODHISATTVA

SUI DYNASTY (AD 581-618)

The bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara is shown standing in tribangha on a double         EXHIBITED
lotus base raised on a tiered pedestal with faceted sides, holding a kamandalu
(‘holy water’ bottle) in the pendent right hand and a willow branch in the raised  Osaka, Kubosu Memorial Museum of Art, Gilt Bronze Buddhist Figures from
left hand, and wearing a long, looped bead necklace, long swirling scarf and       Sui and Tang Dynasty, 1993, no. 82.
a ribbon-hung crown surmounted by a small fgure of Amitabha Buddha, the
head surrounded by a fame-form aureole with open nimbus center.                    LITERATURE

3Ω in. (8.9 cm.) high, wood stand, Japanese wood box                               Kubosu Memorial Museum of Art, Gilt Bronze Buddhist Figures from Sui and
                                                                                   Tang Dynasty, Osaka, 1993, p. 32, no. 82.
$6,000-8,000
                                                                                   隋 鎏金銅觀音菩薩立像

                                                                                                                               (another view)

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