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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT JAPANESE PRIVATE COLLECTION
20 A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE OF A STANDING

KANNON BOSATSU (AVALOKITESHVARA)

HEIAN PERIOD (11TH CENTURY)
Carved from cypress wood in single-block
technique (ichiboku-zukuri) as Avalokiteshvara
dressed in a skirt with a scarf draped around
the shoulders, over the arms and across the
front of the legs, the hair gathered up into a
high coiffure adorned with a crown, the right
arm hanging down and the left arm bent at the
elbow
59¿ in. (150.2 cm.) high

$250,000-350,000

PROVENANCE:
Mayuyama Ryusendo, Tokyo
Countess Bernard d'Escayrac Collection, Switzerland
Mitochu Koeki, Tokyo, 22 December 2000

LITERATURE:
Mayuyama & Co. Ltd., Mayuyama, Seventy Years (Tokyo:
1976), vol. 2, p. 164, no. 333

The present sculpture illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol. II, 1976, no. 333