A RARE AND FINELY CAST GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF AVALOKITESHVARA 17TH-18TH CENTURY The bodhisattva is shown seated with the principal pair of hands are clasped at the chest in anjali mudra , and twelve further pairs of hands, which once held various attributes, arrayed around the body. The principal head is flanked by two smaller, sideways-facing heads, each with an urna in the forehead, all below a five-petaled crown enclosing the hair upswept into a double topknot. Together with a circular gilt-bronze lotus base, 17th-18th century, decorated with layered, overlapping lotus petals. Figure 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high; base 2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high Provenance Private collection, France, acquired in the first half of the 20th century, and thence by descent.
A RARE AND FINELY CAST GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF AVALOKITESHVARA 17TH-18TH CENTURY The bodhisattva is shown seated with the principal pair of hands are clasped at the chest in anjali mudra , and twelve further pairs of hands, which once held various attributes, arrayed around the body. The principal head is flanked by two smaller, sideways-facing heads, each with an urna in the forehead, all below a five-petaled crown enclosing the hair upswept into a double topknot. Together with a circular gilt-bronze lotus base, 17th-18th century, decorated with layered, overlapping lotus petals. Figure 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high; base 2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high Provenance Private collection, France, acquired in the first half of the 20th century, and thence by descent.
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