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Pensive Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) in maharajalila posture
Limestone; height: ca. 100 cm.
China, 10th/11th century
Paris, Musée Guimet.
Photo: after O.Siren, Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century.
London 1925 (reprint Bangkok 1998), vol.II, plate 568.

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