Statuette de Guanyin à l'enfant en bronze doré laqué or Dynastie Ming, XVIIE siècle

assise en dhyanasana, présentant à deux mains un petit enfant aux mains jointes, vêtue d'une ample robe monastique aux bordures incisées de motifs floraux, le torse découvert paré de bijoux, le visage charnu en méditation flanqué de longs lobes d'oreilles percés de boucles rondes et surmonté d'une couronne ouvragée abritant une figure miniature du Bouddha Amitabha, les cheveux retenus en un haut chignon laissant tomber de longues mèches le long des épaules, le tout soutenu par une large base lotiforme entre deux petits lotus épanouis, surmontant une tige émergeant d'un piédestal hexagonal à balustrade (3)

Pedestal, lotus base and figure are cast separately. The heavily cast figure (35.5 cm in height) is covered with a lacquer of reddish lacquer above the fire-gilt surface. The lacquer gilding has rubbed off in some areas of the figure, particularly the face and the back of the figure. There is wear to the gilding on the back of the figure revealing the coppery bronze underneath. The hexagonal pedestal has lost most of the lacquer gilding. There is light wear to the gilding underneath. There are traces of green pigment to the interior of the base. There is some wear to the lacquer gilding on the lotus base and some light wear to the gilding underneath. There are traces of green pigments to the base and the lotus buds on the sides of the lotus base. The lotus base fits well into the hexagonal stand, the figure fits well into the round lotus base.
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