Page 92 - 2019 September 10th Sotheby's Important Chinese and Tibetan Buddhist Art, New York

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

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF WILLIAM
E. PILLSBURY
325 A BRONZE FIGURE OF

AVALOKITESHVARA
DALI KINGDOM, 12TH CENTURY

crisply cast, the body elegantly elongated in a strong frontal
stance with the hands held in front in vitarka and varada mudra,
the hair done up in an elaborate jatamukata style centered by
a seated Amitabha above a studded diadem, adorned with a
torque of beads and scrollwork, tapering ear pendants, foliate
armbands, and bracelets, a belt of spaced florettes worn above a
thin ribbon-tied dhoti secured by a floral pendant at the waist, a
draped sash tied on either hip, the back with an aperture, raised
and mounted on a stone plinth
Height 18⅛ in., 46 cm
PROVENANCE
Acquired by the owner’s family in the 19th century, and thence
by descent.

大理國 十二世紀 銅觀音立像
來源
現藏家家族得於十九世紀，此後家族傳承

$ 200,000-300,000