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

The multi-armed figure is in good overall condition with the exception of loss to the tips of seven of the attributes; a break through the right hand-side section of the scarf; loss to one of the coils on the hair of the top head; light rubbing and loss to the gilding.
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