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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF
A BODHISATTVA

TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

The bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara is shown standing in tribangha on a waisted
double lotus base, holding a willow branch in the raised right hand and a
kamandalu (‘holy water’ bottle) in the pendent left hand, and wearing jeweled
necklaces, a skirt folded over below the waist, and a long scarf wrapped
around the shoulders and arms that trails down the sides of the body, as do
the long ribbons that fall from a headdress centered by the fgure of Amitabha
Buddha. A pierced attachment tab projects from the back of the head and two
from the bottom rim. The whole is raised on a separate, rectangular four-
legged base with open sides.
7¡ in. (18.7 cm.) high

$12,000-18,000

PROVENANCE

Private collection, Japan, acquired prior to 1930.

唐 鎏金銅觀音菩薩立像

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