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the bodhisattva with serene expression, the eyelids lowered between long pendulous ears, the eyebrows, lips and mustache outlined with thin raised lines, the hair also lined and dressed at the front in overlapping curls, a platform around the chignon on the top of the head pierced for the attachment of a diadem, stand (2)
Height 17? in., 43.4 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Jay C. Leff , Uniontown, Pennsylvania, until 1962.
Compare a number of similarly cast smaller heads of Guanyin, including one formerly in the collection of The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, sold in these rooms, 18th October 1974, lot 32; another from the collection of Felix Guggenheim, off ered in these rooms, 1st May 1978, lot 64; and another, complete with the original diadem, illustrated by Alan Priest, Chinese Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1944, pl. CXXIII.
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來源 Jay C. Leff 收藏，尤寧敦，賓州，至1962年
