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ELEVEN-FACED, EIGHT-ARMED AVALOKITESHVARA THANGKA, SINO-TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
Provenance: from the private collection of a Milanese gentleman
81 cm high, 52 cm wide
81 cm high, 52 cm wide
ESTIMATE € 300 - 500
Gouache on cotton portraying Avalokiteshvara the archangel of compassion. The ten faces symbolize that he has mastered all ten Bodhisattva stages and at the top a Buddha Amithaba face. The first two hands are held at level of the solar plexus, the others holding a lotus flower in bloom, and arrow and a bow, the vase for immortality elixir and the wheel of spiritual teaching and a rosary
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