Lot description
A RARE LARGE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF AVALOKITESHVARA MARK AND PERIOD OF XUANDE Avalokiteshvara with right hand lowered in varada mudra and both hands holding the stems of lotus flowers, an urna on the forehead, his hair drawn up in a knotted jatamakuta securing a miniature effigy of Amitabha, with long tresses of hair falling to the shoulders, and wearing bodhisattva jewellery including a crown framing the forehead and tied with billowing sashes at the ears, circular studded earrings, beaded necklaces, bracelets and armbands, with anklets and foot adornments, a scarf around the bare shoulders flowing over the arms, and a voluminous lower garment gathered at the waist and fastened by a beaded girdle, the cloth spreading onto the lotus pedestal engraved on its upper surface with a Xuande reign mark, the bodhisattva seated in lalitasana with the right foot supported by a lotus flower, the pedestal sealed with a plate beneath incised with a visvavajra 26 cm., 10 1/4 in.
