A fire-gilt bronze figure of a twelve-armed and four-headed Guanyin. 17th/18th century - image-1
A fire-gilt bronze figure of a twelve-armed and four-headed Guanyin. 17th/18th century - image-2
A fire-gilt bronze figure of a twelve-armed and four-headed Guanyin. 17th/18th century - image-1A fire-gilt bronze figure of a twelve-armed and four-headed Guanyin. 17th/18th century - image-2

Lot 58 Dα

A fire-gilt bronze figure of a twelve-armed and four-headed Guanyin. 17th/18th century

Auction 1190 - overview Cologne
11.12.2021, 11:00 - Asian Art
Estimate: 5.000 € - 7.000 €
Result: 23.750 € (incl. premium)
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A fire-gilt bronze figure of a twelve-armed and four-headed Guanyin. 17th/18th century

Seated in meditation with long robes with finely incised srolls to the borders spreading out in front of the deity, the primary hands in anjali mudra, the subsidiary hands holding attibutes and lifting a seated Amitabha Buddha above Guanyin's head, behind the ears and behind the ornamte diadem three more heads.
Height 21.2 cm

十七/十八世紀
銅鎏金四面十二臂觀音坐像
來源：荷蘭商人收藏，二十世紀七十年代購於布魯塞爾，此後由其家族傳承

Provenance

Private collection, The Netherlands, acquired in the 1970s in Brussels, and thence by descent