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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 771625, member: 2844"]It is gorgeous, Yashini, and you're right, Guanyin.</p><p>To me the style looks like Sui dynasty, 581-618, and possibly sandstone. It would have been brightly painted with a gilded face and hands.</p><p>I am no expert, and can't examine it, so I recommend taking it to a museum.</p><p>The Sui dynasty was the predecessor of the more famous Tang dynasty. The Sui style varies from very Chinese looking to a bit more Indian influenced.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an old photo of a Sui-early Tang Guanyin from the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://media.vam.ac.uk/media/thira/collection_images/2014HG/2014HG7309_jpg_ds.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O130438/the-bodhisattva-guanyin-holding-a-figure-unknown/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O130438/the-bodhisattva-guanyin-holding-a-figure-unknown/" rel="nofollow">http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O130438/the-bodhisattva-guanyin-holding-a-figure-unknown/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>More Sui Guanyins:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standing_Bodhisattva_Avalokiteshvara_(Guanyin_Pusa)_with_Circular_Halo,_Sui_dynasty,_China,_limestone_with_gilding_and_pigment_-_Sackler_Museum_-_DSC02426.JPG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standing_Bodhisattva_Avalokiteshvara_(Guanyin_Pusa)_with_Circular_Halo,_Sui_dynasty,_China,_limestone_with_gilding_and_pigment_-_Sackler_Museum_-_DSC02426.JPG" rel="nofollow">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standing_Bodhisattva_Avalokiteshvara_(Guanyin_Pusa)_with_Circular_Halo,_Sui_dynasty,_China,_limestone_with_gilding_and_pigment_-_Sackler_Museum_-_DSC02426.JPG</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_dynasty#/media/File:Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_111.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_dynasty#/media/File:Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_111.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_dynasty#/media/File:Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_111.jpg</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 771625, member: 2844"]It is gorgeous, Yashini, and you're right, Guanyin. To me the style looks like Sui dynasty, 581-618, and possibly sandstone. It would have been brightly painted with a gilded face and hands. I am no expert, and can't examine it, so I recommend taking it to a museum. The Sui dynasty was the predecessor of the more famous Tang dynasty. The Sui style varies from very Chinese looking to a bit more Indian influenced. This is an old photo of a Sui-early Tang Guanyin from the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London: [IMG]https://media.vam.ac.uk/media/thira/collection_images/2014HG/2014HG7309_jpg_ds.jpg[/IMG] [URL]http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O130438/the-bodhisattva-guanyin-holding-a-figure-unknown/[/URL] More Sui Guanyins: [URL]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standing_Bodhisattva_Avalokiteshvara_(Guanyin_Pusa)_with_Circular_Halo,_Sui_dynasty,_China,_limestone_with_gilding_and_pigment_-_Sackler_Museum_-_DSC02426.JPG[/URL] [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_dynasty#/media/File:Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_111.jpg[/URL][/QUOTE]
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