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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 21, 2018 | Sotheby's | New York | Important Chinese Art | 556 | $****** - ****** | A RARE AND IMPRESSIVE PAINTING OF AN ELEVEN-HEADED AND MULTI-ARMED AVALOKITESVARA |
Works on Paper
339.1 x 143.5 cm (133.5 x 56.5 in)
ink and color on silk
Yamanaka Shokai, Osaka.
Acquired from the above by a Japanese collector during the Taisho period (1912-1926).
Sotheby's New York, 16th September 2009, lot 130.
the hanging scroll intricately painted with over three hundred Buddhist and Daoist deities, dignitaries, and devotees organized around a large central figure of Avalokitesvara, the reverent entourage shrouded in scrolling clouds parting along the central vertical axis of the composition revealing a crowned worshipper kneeling in prayer before a large hexagonal lion throne, the lion throne surmounted by lotus blossom supporting the Goddess of Compassion with eleven heads arranged in a pyramidal formation and seated in dhyanasana with one pair of arms holding a kalasha vessel in the lap, another set of arms positioned in anjali mudra at the chest, additional arms radiating around the body holding various instruments, and a further set of arm extending upward and holding a small lotus blossom supporting Amitabha cloaked in a red robe, above Amitabha a further figure seated with its back to the viewer, signed di zi Zhou Bangzhang, dated second year of the Chongzhen reign, ji si (1629), and with one seal of the artist, mounted
