Liao Dynasty Gilt Bronze Guan Yin
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Description
The deity seated in dyhanasana dressed in a dhoti tied below the chest, the shoulders covered with a short capelet held in place by a beribboned floret yoke across the chest and draping down the back, the right hand held in varadamudra and the left held in vitarkamudra, the serene face with almond-shaped eyes below arching eyebrows, framed bya long pendulous earlobes and hair divided into sections and tied into five knots around the head, supported on a circular waisted lotus petal base with upright overlapping petals encircling the dais
PROVENANCE
Sotheby's London, 6th December 1994, lot 27.