A monumental bronze Guanyin with silver wire inlay
Qing Dynasty
The figure's casting and inlay of high quality and the unusually large size of the deity impressive as she stands holding a scroll in her left hand, her eyes downcast in meditative contemplation, her hair up-swept in a top knot and cascading down onto her shoulders, a beaded necklace with a stylized lotus pendant visible above the arc of her elegantly flowing robes inlaid with silver wire patterned to evoke clouds and leaf forms; the back of the figure inlaid with two seals, one in the shape of a double gourd reading Xuande and the other a square form reading Zhen Cang, the base with an additional round seal also reading Xuande surrounded by two dragons chasing a flaming pearl.
41in (104 cm) high