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A BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN

China, Tang Dynasty (618-906 AD). Height 12.5 cm. 12.5 x 5.0 x 3.0 cm

Starting price:
35 000 CZK / 1 346 EUR
Price realized:
36 000 CZK / 1 384 EUR

Auction:Asian Works of Art 26/11/2013, 15:00

The standing figure of the bodhisattva shown with right hand raised and holding a willow branch while dangling a small vase from the lowered left hand, the hair worn in long tresses and drawn up into a topknot behind the ribbon-tied fillet, all standing on a lotus pedestal. Provenance: Collection of a Czech sinologist, purchased in Beijing in the early 1950s.
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