A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF AVALOKITESHVARA SUI / EARLY TANG DYNASTY

finely cast standing, swaying gently to the left with a soft bend in the hips in elegantly arranged garments and jewelry, the hair delineated in neat plaits and secured with a diadem over the serene face, wearing a long necklace evenly spaced with large round jewels and smaller beads, a long capelet typical of the period spread across the shoulders and crossed in front, the tapering ends draped across the body onto the raised proper left arm, bearing a willow branch, and the lowered opposite hand, the reverse with incised lines depicting the long tresses cascading over the shoulders and the folds of the long draped garments, all supported on a circular domed base encircled with eight splayed lotus petals above an octagonal base
Height 7 1/8 in., 18.2 cm

Provenance:
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).