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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF ELEVEN-HEADED
AVALOKITESHVARA
18th century
Cast with eleven heads, the principal head surmounted
by three rows of three smaller heads crowned by
a single head of Buddha Amitabha, wearing a long
flowing dhoti with elaborate jewellery, with four pairs of
arms in various mudras and holding various attributes,
standing on an oval lotus-petal base.
24cm (9 1/2in) high (2).

£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 British private collection

來源： 英國私人收藏

A similar gilt-bronze figure of Avalokiteshvara,
17th/18th century, is illustrated in Buddhist Images
in Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993, pp.106-107, no.46. A
closely related eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara,
18th century, is in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, Acc.no.74.36/58.

Two related gilt-bronze figures of eleven-headed
Avalokiteshvara, 18th century, were sold in these
Rooms on 10 November 2016, lot 112 and on 212
15 May 2014, lot 394.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. FINE CHINESE ART | 269