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74 SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK 10 SEPTEMBER 2019 BODIES OF INFINITE LIGHT

PROPERTY FROM THE JUNKUNC COLLECTION
322 A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF

AVALOKITESHVARA
SUI / EARLY TANG DYNASTY

finely cast standing, swaying gently to the left with a soft bend
in the hips in elegantly arranged garments and jewelry, the hair
delineated in neat plaits and secured with a diadem over the
serene face, wearing a long necklace evenly spaced with large
round jewels and smaller beads, a long capelet typical of the
period spread across the shoulders and crossed in front, the
tapering ends draped across the body onto the raised proper
left arm, bearing a willow branch, and the lowered opposite
hand, the reverse with incised lines depicting the long tresses
cascading over the shoulders and the folds of the long draped
garments, all supported on a circular domed base encircled with
eight splayed lotus petals above an octagonal base
Height 7⅛ in., 18.2 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
隋 / 唐初 銅鎏金觀音立像

來源
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

$ 80,000-120,000