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A LARGE GILT-BRONZE REPOUSSÉ FIGURE
OF AVALOKITESHVARA
18th century
With eleven heads, the principal head surmounted
by three rows of three smaller heads crowned by
a single head of Amitabha Buddha, wearing a long
flowing dhoti with elaborate jewellery, with four pairs
of arms in various mudras, standing on an oval
double lotus-petal base.
47.5cm (18 3/4in) high.

£7,000 - 10,000
CNY62,000 - 89,000

十八世紀 銅鎏金十一面觀音菩薩立像

Provenance: a distinguished European private
collection

來源： 顯貴歐洲私人收藏

Compare with a related gilt-bronze figure of eleven-
headed Avalokiteshvara, 18th century, in the
Qing Court collection, illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum:
Buddhist Statues of Tibet, Shenzhen, 2003, p.216,
no.206.

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