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L A C Q U E R • J A D E • B R O N Z E • I N K T H E R V I N G C O L L E C T I O N 髹金飾玉 - 歐雲伉儷珍藏

814 A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE GILT-BRONZE
FIGURE OF A MULTI-ARMED GUANYIN
CHINA, YUNNAN, DALI KINGDOM, 11TH–12TH CENTURY 大理國 十一至十二世紀 鎏金銅觀音菩薩坐像
來源
Finely cast as a tantric image of Avalokitesvara (Guanyin) with three eyes
泛亞收藏（克利斯蒂安.修曼，卒於1981年），紐約，入藏於1972年。
and four arms shown seated with legs pendent, the primary hands held
龐耐，紐約，1983年。
in anjalimudra, the other pair resting on the knees, wearing an elaborate,
歐雲伉儷珍藏，編號871。
openwork crown, as well as beaded necklaces and other jewelry, and a dhoti
tied with a sash below the waist, with two large pierced rectangular tenons 展覽
projecting either side of the un-gilded upper back 借展於丹佛美術館，1972至1978年，借展編號77.1972。
14√ in. (38 cm.) high, stand 著錄
$4,000,000-6,000,000 Anita Christy，‘The Irving Collection: At Home in The Metropolitan
Museum of Art’，《Orientations》，1991年11月，頁61至67，圖11。
PROVENANCE
The Pan-Asian Collection (Christian Humann, d. 1981), New York, by 1972.
Alice Boney, New York, 1983.
The Irving Collection, no. 871.
EXHIBITED
On loan to the Denver Art Museum, 1972-1978, loan number 77.1972..
LITERATURE
Anita Christy, “The Irving Collection: At Home in The Metropolitan Museum
of Art,” Orientations, November 1991, pp. 61-67, fg. 11.

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