Sold for:
$3,600
$3,600
Ivory Avalokitesvara with Thousand Arms, China, 20th century, standing on a rectangular two-tier podium decorated with a dragon head on each of the four corners, with downcast eyes and hands folded in prayer, wearing a jeweled robe and a headdress decorated with a miniature statue of Buddha, holding various symbolic objects such as a Pure Water bottle, medicine bowl, pagoda, Buddhist wheel, and vajra , carved characters indicating Sun and Moon bodhisattvas, and the mantra to invoke Avalokitesvara, Qianlong mark incised to base, ht. 18 in.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2013-10-12
