A rare large gilt-bronze figure of a bodhisattva China, Ming Dynasty

the deity seated in dhyanasana, the main right arm held in varadamudra with fingers clasping a lozenge, the main left hand in dhyanamudra, the attendant six arms radiating around the body holding a 'flaming pearl', lotus, bell and flask, the deity adorned with jewels inlaid with turquoise at the crown, wrists and feet, the shoulders draped with a mantle incised at the hem with scrolling lotus, dressed in a dhoti tied with a central knot at the waist, the crown set atop tightly curled hair, centered by a seated Amitabha Buddha flanked by the Buddhist wheel and chrysanthemum florets, the main face with serene downcast eyes, with two side faces of a demon and a bodhisattva, wood lotus petal stand

The statue has expected wear to the gilding through handling overall. It is missing its pinky at the top left hand. The scarf loop is broken and missing at the proper left elbow. A casting fault repair now missing at proper left shoulder, and two casting fault repairs now missing on proper right leg. There has been possible loss to the crown element finial at the rear. Some of the turquoise has been replaced. In good condition.
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Compare two large gilt-bronze Guanyin figures in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the first with cyclical date linking it to either 1472 or 1512, and the second with almost identical jeweled necklaces, pronounced bridge of the nose, and other facial features, to which a late fifteenth century attribution is suggested, illustrated in Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture in the Avery Brundage Collection, Tokyo, 1974, nos.157 & 158.