Strauss & co - 16 March 2015, Cape Town

277 A Sino-Tibetan gilt bronze figure of Avalokitesvara Sadaksari, 18th century seated in dhyanasana on a raised double- lotus pedestal, his primary hands in the namaskara mudra, the other arms raised, one holding a ‘jewel’, the other a lotus bloom, the head crowned with a ‘jewelled’ diadem, the hair secured in a topknot beneath an image of the Amitabha buddha , with downcast eyes, adorned with jewelled chains, three fingers lacking from his upstretched left hand, some ‘jewels’ lacking, two character mark, 18cm high R200 000–250 000 99