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The Property of a Lady 女士藏品

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A SILVER-WIRE-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE
OF GUANYIN
Inlaid Shisou two-character mark, Qing Dynasty
The seated Goddess of Mercy cast with a serene
expression, her body swaying to her right, her coiled
hands placed on her right knee holding a scroll,
dressed with long looping robe draping to her bare feet
and inlaid in silver wire with clouds and tendril borders.
29.4cm (11 5/8in) high.
£6,000 - 8,000
CNY53,000 - 71,000
清 銅嵌銀觀音坐像
嵌銀絲「石叟」款

Provenance: an Irish private collection; according to
the owner, acquired in Hong Kong circa late 1970s.

來源：愛爾蘭私人收藏；據稱現買家於二十年代七
十世紀購自香港

Compare with a slightly smaller silver-inlaid bronze
figure of Guanyin, 17th/18th century, which was sold
at Christie’s New York, 21-22 March 2013, lot 1282;
and another example, 17th/18th century, which was
also sold at Christie’s New York, 15-16 March 2015,
lot 3209.

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The Property of a Lady 女士藏品

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A GILT-BRONZE REPOUSSÉ STUPA
Tibet, 18th/19th century
With a waisted square plinth elaborately decorated
in relief with pairs of mythical lions, the domed body
raised on a four-tiered stepped base, encircled
by pendent jewels with a Buddha within a niche,
surmounted by tapered parasols flanked by floral
scrolls beneath a sun and moon finial, sealed base.
24cm (9 1/2in) high.

£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000

十八/十九世紀 銅鎏金錘鍱佛塔

Provenance: a European private collection

來源：歐洲私人收藏

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