A rare gilt-bronze figure of Guanyin


Northern Qi Dynasty, dated to the first year of Wuping, corresponding to AD 570 and of the periodThe bodhisattva cast standing in front of a lotus petal-shaped mandorla bordered with flames, with hands in abhaya and varada mudras, wearing layered robes that fall in graceful folds on either side of the bare feet atop a pedestal, with partial remains of an inscription on the back and sides, Japanese box. 13.6cm (5 3/8in) high. (2).
|北齊 武平一年（公元570年） 銅鎏金觀音背光像Provenance: a Japanese private collection formed before the 1980s.來源： 於1980年代前為日本私人收藏The dedicatory inscription states that the present lot was cast by a devotee Liang Taihe during the third month of the first year of the reign of Wuping (AD 570) to commemorate his parents.Compare a similar gilt-bronze votive figure of a bodhisattva dated to the Eastern Wei dynasty in the Nitta Group Collection included in the exhibition The Crucible of Compassion and Wisdom, Taipei, 1987, p.162, pl.65.