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Lot 1028
A Chinese Carved Wooden Painted Guanyin Statue
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
The Bodhisattva of Compassion is crafted in the Ming dynasty style, standing on a craggy rock pedestal, her body is painted with white, red and dark blue pigments, she wears an open lotus blossom crown on her head and jewelry, dressed in cascading robes, she has one hand raised with open palm outwards, and the other hand hangs to her side, comes together with a carved wooden stand.


42.5 in.

From the Collection of Patricia Ann Leahy, Fayetteville, North Carolina

Numerous repairs to cracked wood; large area of wood missing to the back of the lower robe; chipping and cracking with loss to paint overall; raised arm repaired; several stress cracks to wood.