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A large ivory carving of Guanyin with Shancai and Xiaolongnu,…
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Auction Location:
Melbourne
Date:
6-Apr-2016
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Description:
A large ivory carving of Guanyin with Shancai and Xiaolongnu, 19th/20th century, (2), the deity seated wearing loosely draped robes with incised borders and a shawl covering her high coiled chignon, and adorned with an elaborate necklace, her face with downcast gaze and slight smile, supporting with both hands a small boy resting on her folded right leg, her attendants standing on the rockwork base to either side, a set of books and her ambrosial vase resting on a higher ledge, and with pine and other leafy plants growing from the fissures in the overhangning rocky cliff, incised above with the character 'Buddha' picked out in red, and with an inscription to one side reading 'Guanyin Buddha on the Nanhai Guanyin Rock, a gift from the Gushan Datang', the underside with a four-character seal on a red cartouche reading Da Ming nian zhi (Made in the great Ming dynasty), the removable base with stepped fitted top projecting over the straight sides carved in deep relief with four niches containing Budai seated with jovial expression, a Luohan seated in meditation and alternating with two standing acolytes, encircled with lotus petals incised around the base and with entwined rope around the top and underside, (2), 57 cm high overall
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Unclassified