Antique
Chinese Carving Quanyin
Seated
On White Elephant
Late Qing, Circa: Late 19th - early 20th
Century H
5.75 in.(14.5cm), W 4 in.(10cm), D 3 in.(7.5cm) Condition: minor age cracks, o.a. good!
Private Collection
Beautifully
carved in cream to light gold ivory with striations and Schreger lines, a large
ivory carving depicting Quanyin, Goddess of Mercy, seated in royal ease atop the
sacred white elephant, holding up her right hand in the mudra of fearlessness,
while in her left she holds the Joo-I. Her hair is swept into a high chignon which
is topped with a phoenix holding a string of pearls in its beak. Two tendrils
fall at either side of her head, which is turned slightly to her left as she searches
the world for suffering beings to aid and comfort them. Her right hand is the
gesture of comforting and fearlessness. Her garments flow in lambent drifts and
swirls; a rope at her waist fastens a bounty of peaches of immortality. The sacred
elephant rests beneath her in protective watchfulness. The face of Quanyin is
rendered with a pleasing softness, her lovely features inclined as if listening
toward samsara.
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