A large gilt-bronze figure of a multi-armed Avalokitesvara Ming dynasty, 16th century finely cast with four heads and forty-eight arms seated in vajraparyankasana on a lotus flower, his principal hands held together before his chest in anjalimudra, supporting a kalasha vessel on his lap, with the attendant arms fanning out from the body each holding a different ritual implement in the hand, wearing an embroidered dhoti splaying around the body, the benevolent face framed by a five-pointed crown, encircling the head of Amitabha emerging from the top of the deity's head, the ribbon from the crown trailing down both shoulders, the base a later addition 52 cm., 20 1/2 in.
A large gilt-bronze figure of a multi-armed Avalokitesvara Ming dynasty, 16th century finely cast with four heads and forty-eight arms seated in vajraparyankasana on a lotus flower, his principal hands held together before his chest in anjalimudra, supporting a kalasha vessel on his lap, with the attendant arms fanning out from the body each holding a different ritual implement in the hand, wearing an embroidered dhoti splaying around the body, the benevolent face framed by a five-pointed crown, encircling the head of Amitabha emerging from the top of the deity's head, the ribbon from the crown trailing down both shoulders, the base a later addition 52 cm., 20 1/2 in.
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