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A REPOUSSÉ GILT-BRONZE STANDING FIGURE OF A similar gilt-bronze figure of an eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara, 18th
ELEVEN-HEADED AVALOKITESHVARA century, is illustrated by U.von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong
18th century Kong, 2008, pp.552-553, pl.158C. Another gilt-bronze figure of an
Finely cast standing with eight arms and eleven heads arranged in eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara, 17th/18th century, is illustrated in
five tiers surmounted by one head with a wrathful expression topped Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993, p.106, no.46. Two similar
by a small head of Amitabha Buddha, the principal hands held in gilt-bronze figures of eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara, 18th century,
anjalimudra, the others fanned out in various mudras, the body were sold at Bonhams London, on 15 May 2014, lot 394 and 10
adorned with elaborate jewellery and fluttering scarves, with a deer November 2016, lot 112
skin slung across one shoulder, separate lotus-petal stand.
24cm (9 1/2in) high. (2).

£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000

十八世紀 銅鎏金十一面觀音菩薩立像

Provenance: a distinguished English private collection

來源： 顯貴英國私人收藏

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