A CHINESE WOOD FIGURE OF GUANYIN

17TH/18TH CENTURY

She sits in a relaxed pose with her right hand resting on her raised knee, wearing flowing robes incised with ruyi-head shaped clouds and lotus decoration at the borders, her hair divided into two knotted tresses and piled high in a chignon, all raised on a fitted wood base, 21cm. (2)

Provenance: sold on behalf of the executors of Ruth Evelyn Forrest.