176. RARE STATUETTE DE GUANYIN EN BOIS LAQUÉE OR Époque Kangxi (1662-1722) A VERY RARE LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF THE THOUSAND-ARMED GUANYIN Kangxi period The bodhisattva standing proudly on a double-lotus base, with twenty-four arms dramatically moving in a fan-shape around him, dressed in long loose robes opening at the chest to reveal elaborate bejewelled necklaces, with both primary hands held together, the other hands each holding a different attribute, the face with a serene expression, the hair drawn up and gathered in a high chignon. 39.87cm (15 3/4in) high (without stand). (2). 清康熙 漆金木千手觀音立像 Provenance: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, Hamburg, 29 November 1971, lot 41 Collection of Joachim Schlotterbeck (1926-2007), Würzburg Nagel, Stuttgart, 6 May 1995, lot 397 來源： 漢堡Ernst Hauswedell博士珍藏，1971年11月29日，編號41 符茲堡Joachim Schlotterbeck（1926-2007）珍藏 納高拍賣行，斯圖加特，1995年5月6日，編號397 A nearly identical tantric figure of a thousand-armed Guanyin, dated to the Kangxi period, also with twenty-four arms, is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (accession no. FE.22.1986). Compare also with two other examples of gilt-lacquered wood figures of multi-armed Guanyin, the first from the Exner collection, illustrated in Herbert Fux, Ostasiatische Kunst Sammlung Exner, Darmstadt, 1973, p. 13, no.9; the second, from the collection of the Völkerkunde Museum, Munich, was included in the exhibition Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst, Berlin, 1929, p.254, no.666.