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A LARGE SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF
GUANYIN
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
The bodhisattva is modelled standing in a graceful pose,
slightly turned to her right with her head inclined. It is finely
detailed with the eyes downcast and lips gently dented to
provide a benevolent expression on her face beneath the
elaborately coiffed hair. She wears a long loose celestial robe,
inlaid with silver-wire cloud patterns and classic scroll at the
hem, that falls in soft folds to the tops of the bare feet and is
open at the chest to reveal a bejewelled necklace centred by a
beaded lotus medallion. Her left arm is holding a ruyi sceptre
while her right hand is concealed beneath her long robe. The
back is incised with a four-character Yutang Shisou (monk
Shisou of the Jade Hall) mark in a vertical line with a Yuanhe
ernian (the second year of the Yuanhe reign) mark on the base.
31 º in. (79.4 cm.) high
HK$380,000-550,000 US$50,000-71,000
PROVENANCE
Sold at Bonham’s New York, 16 March 2015, lot 8065

清十九世紀 銅錯銀觀音菩薩立像

背刻「玉堂石叟」，底部亦刻「元和二年」寄託款。
來源
紐約邦瀚斯，2015 年 3 月 16 日，拍品 8065 號

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