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A MAGNIFICENT AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYINDALI KINGDOM, LATE 11TH-EARLY 12TH CENTURY

Price realised     USD 2,580,000

Estimate          USD 2,000,000 – USD 3,000,000

 

A MAGNIFICENT AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN
DALI KINGDOM, LATE 11TH-EARLY 12TH CENTURY
The bodhisattva is shown standing with both hands slightly raised with palms up, and holding in the proper left hand an ambrosia bottle (kundika). He wears a dhoti gathered by a sash around the waist and an abundance of jewelry, including armlets, bracelets, anklets, earrings, and an elaborate multi-strand necklace, as well as a shawl draped over the shoulders and a long scarf laid across the raised arms and falling on either side of the exposed bare feet. The face is cast with fine features below the tall foliate crown centered by a figure of Amitabha Buddha seated amidst vaporous clouds, while the hair is arranged in a tall coiffure atop the head and with long tresses cascading over the shoulders.  
22 1⁄2 in. (57.1 cm.) high, oak stand

 

Provenance

C. T. Loo & Co., New York, circa 1924.
Grace Rainey Rogers (1867-1943) Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Collection of the Late Grace Rainey Rogers; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 18-19 November 1943, lot 285.
C.T. Loo & Co., New York or Frank Caro, New York.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections.
Acquired from the above in 1982.

 

Literature

Tch'ou To-yi, Bronze Antiques de la Chine apparentant a C.T. Loo et Cie, Paris and Brussels, 1924, pl. 39-4.
Chinese Art Treasures, Vol. IV, Series A, Institute of Chinese Culture, Taiwan, 1961, pl. 20.

 

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Chinese Art Galleries: Stone Age Through Modern Times, 3 June 1978-2009.
On loan: Ithaca, NY, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 2011-2014.