Lot 3047. A large gilt-bronze figure of a multi-armed Avalokitesvara, Ming dynasty, 16th century; 52 cm., 20 1/2 in. Estimate 500,000 — 700,000 HKD. Lot Sold 1,040,000 HKD. Photo Sotheby's

finely cast with four heads and forty-eight arms seated in vajraparyankasana on a lotus flower, his principal hands held together before his chest in anjalimudra, supporting a kalasha vessel on his lap, with the attendant arms fanning out from the body each holding a different ritual implement in the hand, wearing an embroidered dhoti splaying around the body, the benevolent face framed by a five-pointed crown, encircling the head of Amitabha emerging from the top of the deity's head, the ribbon from the crown trailing down both shoulders, the base a later addition.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 april 2011