Sino-Tibetan, 1644-1912. The eleven-headed bodhisattva standing on a separately cast and unsealed lotus base, wearing elegant five-pointed crowns, the body richly adorned in jewelry, the eight arms spread in a fan with the two primary hands in anjali mudra at heart center, wearing a diaphonous dhoti secured at the waist with beaded girdle.
Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear. Provenance: Austrian private collection.
Weight: 153.2 g Dimensions: Height 10.6 cm
Auction result comparison: A related figure, without a base and with extensive wear to the gilt, was sold by Sotheby’s New York in Saturdays at Sotheby’s: Asian Art on 24 March 2018, lot 1639, for USD $3,500.