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A gilt-lacquered bronze seated Buddhist figure
Ming dynastyCast seated cross-legged in dhyanasana and hands held in the varada and dhyana mudras, the tightly coiled hair fashioned in a high ushnisha behind an openwork crown enclosing five seated Buddhas, the face with heavily lidded eyes and gentle smile framed by elongated earlobes suspending ornate earrings, clad in loose flowing layered robes incised with floral hems and open at the chest. 15in (38.1cm) high
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Guanyin frequently wears a crown fronted with a single seated figure of Amitabha Buddha. However examples of the bodhisattva with three and five Buddhas in the crown are also known: see the three-figure crown on a Ming bronze Guanyin sold in our New York rooms, 15 September 2014, lot 8080. An impressive gilt bronze seated Guanyin with a five Buddhas in the crown was sold at Christie's, London, 15 May 2018, lot 166. Smaller images with the five Buddhas in the crown, also identified as Guanyin and Ming dynasty, were sold in Christie's, New York, 13-14 September 2012, lot 1271; and Christie's New York 18 September 2003, lot 166.Without princely raiment and jewels however, the figure could also be meant to depict the southern Dhyanibuddha Ratnasambhava-- the 'jewel born' Buddha. For a figure displaying similar attire and crown iconography but holding his hands in the uttarabodhi rather than the varada mudra like the present lot, see the gilt Dhyanibuddha Vairocana sold in our New Bond Street rooms, 10, November 2016, lot 107.