Himalayas: The Richard R. & Magdalena Ernst Collection of Important Tibetan Paintings and other Himalayan Works of Art

Himalayas: The Richard R. & Magdalena Ernst Collection of Important Tibetan Paintings and other Himalayan Works of Art

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A gilt-copper alloy figure of Avalokiteshvara, Qing dynasty, 18th century | 清十八世紀 鎏金銅合金十一面觀世音菩薩立像

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Property from the collection of Richard R. and Magdalena Ernst

A gilt-copper alloy figure of Avalokiteshvara

Qing dynasty, 18th century


the eleven-headed and eight-armed deity standing upright in samapada, with long hair tresses reaching the upper arms, the principal hands in anjali mudra before the chest, and adorned with bodhisattva ornaments, a long flowing scarf around the shoulders and sumptuous lower garments

H. 28 cm, 11 in.

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Collection Richard R. et Magdalena Ernst

Statuette de Avalokiteshvara en alliage de cuivre doré, dynastie Qing, XVIIIe siècle

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清十八世紀 鎏金銅合金十一面觀世音菩薩立像

The bodhisattva, depicted here in his iconic form with eleven heads and eight arms, is regarded as the patron deity of Tibet and Tibetan Buddhism, and was similarly espoused in Qing dynasty China where this finely cast and gilded image was created in the eighteenth century, c.f. an eighteenth-century Qing dynasty example in Ulrich von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, p. 553, pl. 158C.