171. STATUETTE DE GUANYIN EN BRONZE INCRUSTÉ D'ARGENT Fin de la dynastie Ming A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANYIN SEATED ON A BUDDHIST LION Late Ming Dynasty The deity seated on the back of a Buddhist lion, wearing long layered robes revealing the chest, the face with a benign expression framed prominent pendant earlobes, the hair drawn back in high chignon, the recumbent animal with its head tilted to the right, with bulging eyes, finely inlaid with silver-wire highlighting the embroidery of the hems and the animal's fur. 15.2cm (6in) high. 明晚期 銅錯銀騎犼觀音坐像 Provenance: Collection of Dr. E.M., Bavaria, acquired in Germany before 1986, thence by descent in the family, acquired from the family 來源： 巴伐利亞E.M.博士珍藏，於1986年前得自德國，後家族傳承 現藏家得自上述來源 Compare this silver-inlaid bronze figure of Guanyin with an example illustrated in Paul Moss and Gerard Hawthorn, The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalworks, London 1991, no.7.