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Lot 240
A LARGE AND RARE BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN
Estimated Value:
5.000 € - 8.000 €
Result:
5.180 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
China, Ming dynastyH. 46 cm (54,5 cm incl. Stand)
Seated with legs crossed, both hands resting in dhyanamudra on her lap, wearing various garments including a skirt tied around the waist knotted to the front with a ribbon, a long sleeved mantle covering both shoulders while falling down in large pleats over legs and base, bejewelled, her face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into the nose-bridge, raised urna placed high at the forehead, smiling lips, elongated earlobes, the hair combed in a chignon with various tresses decorating both shoulders and secured with a three-leaf tiara cast with a minute Buddha figure to the front. Carved wood stand.
Former collection Marc Perc-Peretz, assembled in the 1960s, bought prior 1995 by Janos Freiherr von Brandenstein
A very large bronze figure of a Bodhisattva in a similar distinctive seated position and dressed in plain robes symmetrically arranged in the lap and falling in folds over both knees, bearing a long dedicatory inscription on the back including the dated corresponding to 1595, was sold in Christie's London, 24 June 1984, lot 298, suggesting a similar 16th century date for the current figure - Remains of a inscription on the reverse, wear, wood stand slightly chipped
