A LARGE 20TH CENTURY CHINESE HARDSTONE CARVING OF A ‘WATER AND MOON’ GUANYIN IN A GROTTO
68 cm high
The figure seated inside a grotto, the kundika bottle on a rock on her left side, toward the base the inscription 水月观音 Shui yue Guanyin, “Water and moon Guanyin”, the back carved in relief with a landscape and a long poetical inscription.