A POLYCHROME CLAY AND WOOD FIGURE OF GUANYIN

Description:

China, early Ming Dynasty
H. 111 cm
The clay figure is modelled around a wood frame, and is standing in slight tribhanga on a lotus base, his body slightly turned, his right hand stretched along his body while the left is raised in front of his chest, wearing dhoti fastened with a belt around the waist and falling down in wide folds, cape draped over his shoulders continuing into the streamers falling along his body on the base, bracelets, necklace, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into the nose-bridge, smiling lips, elongated earlobes and his hairdo combed in a chignon set with a floral shaped tiara to the front.
According to the present owner from a European private collection, acquired in the 1980s - Minor damages and restorations