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Lot 205

AN ANTIQUE CHINESE NEAR-LIFE SIZE CARVED AND POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF GUANYIN
Apparently Ming dynasty, 16th century

The bodhisattva modelled standing with downcast eyes and hair raised to a tall top knot, in robes falling and tied across the body and gathered and tied across the hips, the left arm straight beside the body with hand in shuni mudra, the right arm crooked (its hand absent), on a circular lotus base, carved pine with the remains of the original fenbi surface and polychrome decoration
151cm high

Estimate $3,400 - $3,800

Sold for $3,400

The figure is worn with age, with natural shrinkage fissures in the wood, and with only partial remains of the original polychrome decoration; the right hand is absent.


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Decorative Arts

AUCTION
Sale: LJ8817
6:00pm - 13 July 2026
Hawthorn

VIEWING
Fri 10 - Sun 12 July, 11am - 5pm
2 Oxley Rd, Hawthorn VIC

CONTACT
Chiara Curcio
decorativearts@leonardjoel.com.au


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