A RARE AND FINELY CAST GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF AVALOKITESHVARA, 17TH-18TH CENTURY

A RARE AND FINELY CAST GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF AVALOKITESHVARA
17TH-18TH CENTURY
The bodhisattva is shown seated with the principal pair of hands are clasped at the chest in anjali mudra, and twelve further pairs of hands, which once held various attributes, arrayed around the body. The principal head is flanked by two smaller, sideways-facing heads, each with an urna in the forehead, all below a five-petaled crown enclosing the hair upswept into a double topknot. Together with a circular gilt-bronze lotus base, 17th-18th century, decorated with layered, overlapping lotus petals.
Figure 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high; base 2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high

Pre-Lot Text
VARIOUS PROPERTIES