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A RARE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN
Northern Qi Dynasty, dated to the first year of Wuping, corresponding
to AD 570 and of the period
The bodhisattva cast standing against a lotus petal-shaped mandorla
bordered with flames, with hands in abhaya and varada mudras,
wearing layered robes that fall in graceful folds on either side of the
bare feet atop a pedestal, with partial remains of an inscription on the
back and sides, Japanese box.
13.6cm (5 3/8in) high. (2).

£20,000 - 30,000
CNY180,000 - 270,000

北齊 武平一年（公元570年） 銅鎏金觀音背光像

Provenance: a Japanese private collection formed before the 1980s.

來源： 於1980年代前為日本私人收藏

The dedicatory inscription states that the present lot was cast by a
devotee Liang Taihe during the third month of the first year of the reign
of Wuping (AD 570) to commemorate his parents.

Compare a similar gilt-bronze votive figure of a bodhisattva dated
Eastern Wei Dynasty in the Nitta Group Collection included in the
exhibition The Crucible of Compassion and Wisdom, Taipei, 1987,
p.162, pl.65.

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