MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN ON A LOTUS BASE
Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century
The bodhisattva Avalokitesvara shown seated in padmasana, the bare chest cast with a wan emblem, with long ribbons decorated with cartouches of fruiting and blossoming branches trailing from the five-part openwork crown enclosing five images of Amitabha, on a separate lotus base raised on a stem rising from the separate wave-cast faceted hexagonal stand
32¾in. (83.2cm.) high overall

Lot Essay

Compare the similar figure also raised on a lotus stand and of the same date but of somewhat smaller size (62.4cm.) in the Chang Foundation, illustrated in Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993, no. 37. For another similar figure wearing a similar openwork crown but lacking the lotus base, see The Chinese Collections, Singapore, 1997, no. 160.

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