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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A MAGNIFICENT AND RARE 清康熙
LARGE GILT-BRONZE 鎏金銅嵌寶十一面觀音立像
FIGURE OF ELEVEN-HEADED
AVALOKITESHVARA
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI
PERIOD
the standing deity with eight arms and eleven heads, arranged
in three tiers, surmounted by one head with a wrathful
countenance topped by a small head of Amitabha, the
principal hands held in anjalimudra, the figure adorned with
inlaid jewellery with a deer skin draped over the left shoulder,
clad in a shawl and a two-layered dhoti with finely chased
borders, all raised on an elaborate lotus flower base with
individual petals arranged in five rows
37.3 cm, 14¼ in.
HK$ 1,800,000-2,500,000
US$ 231,000-320,000
274 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比