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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN
PRIVATE COLLECTION
328 A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF
AVALOKITESHVARA PADMAPANI
YONGLE MARK AND PERIOD

exquisitely cast, seated in lalitasana with the proper right
leg slightly extended and supported by a blossoming lotus,
two further blossoms with buds flanking each shoulder and
connected to the outwardly-facing hands in vitarka and varada
mudras by long, curving stems, the regal deity crowned with
an elaborate diadem encircling a high topknot and set above
a broad, tranquil face, the ears and body adorned with ornate
jewelry, a celestial sash wrapping around the shoulders and
arms, the waist sensuously defined above a low-slung dhoti, all
raised on a double-lotus with scrolled embellishments to the
petals, a horizontal six-character mark inscribed to the front of
the base, retaining consecratory materials including miniature
sutra scrolls
Height 9⅞ in., 25 cm
PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 23rd March 1999, lot 126.
明永樂 銅鎏金蓮華手觀音立像
《大明永樂年施》款

來源
紐約佳士得1999年3月23日，編號126

$ 500,000-700,000

Consecratory materials including sutra scrolls, retained with the present lot
本像內部裝藏