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$12,000.00 Original price was: $12,000.00.$7,500.00Current price is: $7,500.00.
H: 42” W: 25” D: 27.5” | FOR SHIPPING Call 213-568-3030 or email [email protected]
This powerful, exquisite and rare almost life-size Guanyin seated in teaching mudra to spread the dharma, radiates serene spiritual energy. To optimally enjoy this statue, she should be placed in an elevated position as it was modeled to be viewed from below. Magnificently carved and covered with lacquer, this statue will fill any environment with meditative tranquility. Authentic Buddhist carved images of this size, beauty, quality, and shape are very difficult to find, especially after China’s modernization.
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$1,350.00 Original price was: $1,350.00.$1,100.00Current price is: $1,100.00.
H: 11” W: 5.75” D: 5.125” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This very rare and fine 16th century home shrine image displays the benign and compassionate countenance of Songzi Guanyin the “Bestower of Children.” With round face and joyful half-closed and eyes, she looks lovingly at the child whose arm is draped over hers.and leans slightly forward, wearing a 5- lobed crown centered with a camellia flower a Chinese symbol of young sons and daughters. The inscription on the back dates the piece to 1521-1567
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$450.00 Original price was: $450.00.$325.00Current price is: $325.00.
H: 11.75″ W: 5.25″ D: 4.75 ” | Free shipping within continental us
This provincial Nanhai Guanyin sits with her palms at her heart in anjali mudra, a mudra of offering rarely used for Nanhai Guanyin. She sits on a two tiered lotus throne on a lotus at the entrance to her Tidal Cave on Putuo under a craggy rock outcrop framed by pierced openwork. Placed on a home altar, her modest presentation reflect local beliefs to resonate with provincial populations.
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$720.00 Original price was: $720.00.$595.00Current price is: $595.00.
H: 22.75″ W: 7.25″ D: 5″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING
Carved from one piece of wood, this triad depicts Nanhai Guanyin and her two acolytes, Shan Tsai (now lost to deterioration) and Longnü, the Dragon Princess holding the Precious Gem. As a Pure Land Buddhist carving, her crown is centered with Amitabha Buddha in meditation bordered by the flames of Buddhism. Despite its losses, this Ming/Qing carving retains its spiritual and serene charm
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$1,450.00 Original price was: $1,450.00.$1,100.00Current price is: $1,100.00.
H: 15.5″ W: 6″ D: 5.25″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL VANISHINGARTS213@GMAIL/COM for shipping information
In this elegant and vibrant carving Guanyin sits in meditation. her beautiful, serene face elegantly carved in contemplation withbud-shaped lips softly set in a welcoming and benign sweet smile wearing a five-lobed crown. She sits on an open lotus with a vertical post at her sides; her sacred vial on her right and a parrot on the left. Antique carved i Guanyin statues with her symbols in this condition are quite wonderful and rare and impart a feeling of serenity to the environment around them.
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$725.00 Original price was: $725.00.$650.00Current price is: $650.00.
H: 15.125” W: 6” D: 5” | FREE SHIPPING within Continental U.S.!
This charming rare White Robed Guanyin sits on a Hǒu, the mythical guardian beast that symbolizes righteousness and morality and the mandate to usher in peace and prosperity. This Hǒu is a gentle Buddhist creature curled around Guanyin’s side as she in lalitsana clasping a rosary. This fine and rare provincial folk version of Guanyin is a small yet powerful carving, mounted on a frosted Acrylic base.
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$5,900.00 Original price was: $5,900.00.$3,900.00Current price is: $3,900.00.
H: 34″ W: 12″ D: 15″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.
This rare and intriguing Nanhai Guanyin sits in her cave with internal layers at Putuo. On the top is the donor who commissioned the piece, seldomly placed within the Guanyin tableau.Two levels of attendant pairs flank her: the upper with her two acolytes Longnu, (the Dragon Princess) on her right holding a flaming gem, and Shan Tsai (Sudhana) on her left with hands, now missing, clasped in anjali mudra of reverence and two generic attendants are on the on the bottom. This work is truly remarkable in its execution and iconography.
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$595.00 Original price was: $595.00.$495.00Current price is: $495.00.
H: 8.675″ Dia: 4.5″ | Free SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This delicate small Mahayana Buddhist carving of seated White Robed Guanyin in meditation sits in meditation on a radiating lotus throne symbolizing her enlightenment, rebirth and purity. As a Popular Religion figure, she is humble, modest, relatable, accessible, yet a beautiful matronly figure. This beautiful figurine was placed on a home altar with other spiritual statues and house gods. Mounted on a frosted acrylic base.
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$2,650.00 Original price was: $2,650.00.$1,975.00Current price is: $1,975.00.
H: 14.5” W: 8.25” D: 5” | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
This beautiful Guanyin is carved in the rural provincial tradition: a modest, compassionate and humble deity with a simple “crown” of lotus leaves and an unadorned robe with flowing sleeves extended to her plain pedestal lined with simple leaves. Her face is extremely empathetic with a slight smile as she tenderly grasping her child who resembles the infant Buddha. Given its size and elegance it was probably on a home altar of a well to do couple desirous of having a (male) baby.
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$1,185.00 Original price was: $1,185.00.$975.00Current price is: $975.00.
H: 13.5″ W: 7.25″ D: 6″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.
Seated in lalitsana, the position of royal ease, this delicate White Robed Guanyin is traditionally portrayed as a humble and modest deity, although she has a gilt lacquer surface. Her white hood is draped over a stylized image of Amitabha Buddha to whom she is a companion in Pure Land Buddhism, the most widespread Buddhist sect.
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$425.00 Original price was: $425.00.$300.00Current price is: $300.00.
H:9.75″ W: 5.6″ D: 3.75″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This red lacquer and gilt covered image made for a home altar is a Pure Land Buddhist statue. Although it is a provincial image it has an elaborate headdress and decorative necklace of imperially sanctioned Guanyin images. Her 5-lobed crown is centered with radiating bars symbolizing Amitabha Buddha and his aureole that represents the flames of Buddhism.
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$595.00 Original price was: $595.00.$395.00Current price is: $395.00.
H: 9.75″ W: 5″ D: 4.5″ | FREE SHIPPING within continental u.s.!
This enchanting carving depicts Nanhai Guanyin in her Cave on Mount Putuo seated in lalitsana, below a symbolic arch of draped moss with bright pigmentation and considerable gilt. Nanhai Guanyin was massively popular during the Ming/Qing dynasties and provincial wood images were made home altars throughout China. She holds scrolls representing the dharma and sutras, behind her is a vial with the tears of her humanity and parrot, her constant companion. Small Nanhai images with all these symbols in this condition are very rare.
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