A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF ELEVEN-HEADED AVALOKITESHVARA QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY | 清十八世紀 鎏金銅十一面觀音立像

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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF ELEVEN-HEADED AVALOKITESHVARA

QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

清十八世紀 鎏金銅十一面觀音立像

cast with eight arms and eleven heads arranged in four tiers and surmounted by Amitabha, standing on a double-lotus base, the principle hands held in anjali mudra, the others fanned out and holding respective attributes, adorned with beaded jewellery and clad in a long scarf with ends flowing down to the feet and a dhoti detailed with incised floral borders

Height 33 cm, 13 in.