A CARVED STONE STELE OF AVALOKITESHVARA, SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY | 南宋 石雕觀音菩薩碑

The iconography and style of this figure of Avalokiteshvara, specifically the seated posture and treatment of the robes, is reminiscent of that on qingbai figures created at Jingdezhen in the Southern Song dynasty.  A figure found in 1964 in the foundations of a Jin dynasty pagoda at Fengtai, Beijing is now preserved in the Capital Museum, Beijing, and is illustrated in Zhongguo wenwu jinghua daxidian - taoci juan, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 290, no. 405. See also an example sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1st June 2011, lot 3726.