Kwan Yin

Kwan Yin

A magnificent impressive elegant Chinese large ivory carving of Guan Yin, her face serene, a crown resting on her head.
Dressed in flowing robes and sashes. Hair parted and tied to fall on her shoulders, wearing a necklace, bracelets on her wrists.
Left hand holding a small willow branch, her right a basket containing lotus blossoms and leaf. Decorative chains hang down between the folds of her robes. A phoenix standing beside her left, the plumage curving around, a tied scroll hangs from its beak. Upright and inverted lotus petals form the foot.

A Ming period mark under

A finely detailed majestic carving.

A hardwood stand

Late 19th - Early 20th century.

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Condition: Excellent, nice aged patina..

Dimensions are maximum measurements

Ivory
Height about : 49.5 cm
Width about: 9.0 cm
Depth about : 7.3 cm
Weight 1,443 grams (1.443 kgs)

Stand
Height about : 4.7 cm
Width about: 11.6 cm
Depth about : 10.5 cm
Weight 280grams


A$9,000

Quan Yin , also spelled as Kwan Yin, Kuanyin, Guanyin.
" The One Who Hears the Cries of the World"

In Sanskrit, her name is Padma-pâni, or "Born of the Lotus."

Quan Yin, alone among Buddhist gods, is loved rather than feared and is the model of Chinese beauty.
Regarded by the Chinese as the Goddess of Mercy.
One of the several stories surrounding Quan Yin is that she was a Buddhist who through great love and sacrifice during life, had earned the right to enter Nirvana after death. However, while standing before the gates of Paradise she heard a cry of anguish from the earth below. Turning back to earth, she renounced her reward of bliss eternal but in its place found immortality in the hearts of the suffering.

In China she has many names and is also known as "great mercy, great pity; salvation from misery, salvation from woe; self-existent; thousand arms and thousand eyes,". In addition she is often referred to as the Goddess of the Southern Sea.

She is one of the San Ta Shih, or the Three Great Beings, renowned for their power over the animal kingdom or the forces of nature.
These three Bodhisattvas or P’u Sa as they are know in China, are Wên Shu, P’u Hsien, and Quan Yin (Kwan Yin).