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Mingchang (1195), adorned with an elaborate diadem in a similar style, published in Zhongguo meishu quanji. Wudai Song diaosu
[The complete series of Chinese art. Five Dynasties and Song sculpture], vol. 5, Beijing, 1988, pl. 179; and a further painted stone
example depicting the Purple-Bamboo Guanyin, from the Anyue Grottoes, Sichuan Province, illustrated in Angela Falco Howard et
al., Chinese Sculpture, New Haven and London, 2006, fig. 4.26.

For examples with softly rendered features in a related style, see a polychrome wood figure of a bodhisattva from the collection
of Robert H. Ellsworth, attributed to Song - Jin dynasty, sold at Christie's New York, 17th March 2015, lot 58; another in the
Princeton University Art Museum, attributed to circa 1250, included in the museum's exhibition An Educated Eye: The Princeton
University Art Museum Collection, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 2008; one from the Shanghai Museum, attributed
to the Song dynasty, published in Ann Paludan, Chinese Sculpture. A Great Tradition, Chicago, 2006, p. 384, fig. 254; another from
the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, attributed to the Jin dynasty, included in the exhibition Masterworks in Wood: China
and Japan, Portland Art Museum, Portland, 1976, cat. no. 13; and a stone head of a bodhisattva from the J.T. Tai Collection,
attributed to the Liao/ Song dynasty, sold in these rooms, 22nd March 2011, lot 265.

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