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seated in rajalilasana with the left foot pendent upon a lotus blossom, the right leg gracefully raised supporting the right arm on the knee, wearing a dhoti falling into elegant folds, the chest adorned with a beaded necklace, the face with a benevolent expression, crowned by a tall headdress centered by a fi gure of Amitabha Buddha, all within a large grotto of stylized rocks, supported on a high waisted rockwork pedestal on a stepped rectangular plinth (2)
Height 8? in., 20.5 cm
The image of Avalokitesvara seated within a grotto representing Mount Potalaka is typically known as the ‘Watermoon’ Guanyin within Chinese iconography, and is derived from a passage in the Avatamsaka Sutra, the ‘Flower Garland’ Sutra, which relates the spiritual journey of a youth, Sudhana, who is advised by the bodhisattva of Wisdom, Manjusri, to visit fi fty-three diff erent beings in his quest for ultimate truth.
The present lot belongs to a small group of ‘Watermoon’ Guanyin fi gures that still retain their original grotto stand. See two closely related examples, one off ered in our New York rooms, 22nd September 2004, lot 22, and the other sold in our London rooms, 7th June 1988, lot 35.
Compare also a similar fi gure with stand, but lacking the grotto, in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., illustrated by Hugo Munsterberg, Chinese Buddhist Bronzes, Tokyo, 1967, pl. 69, and another sold at Christie’s London, 10th December 1990, lot 38. For examples without the stand, see two sold in our London rooms, 9th June 2004, lot 134 and 12th June 1990, lot 27.
宋 銅水月觀音坐像
