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Detail: Sotheby's Paris Asian Art sale will present a wonderful selection of fine works of art from China, Tibet and Japan, most of them of French provenance. One of the sale highlights is a fine and rare bronze figure of the Bodhisattva Guanyin (€200,000-250,000), dating from the Yuan or early Ming Dynasty. The figure is a rare early example of Chinese Buddhist sculpture and depicts the bodhisattva in the position of royal ease, with its left leg pendant and the right leg drawn up. Other examples of this type also known as the Water and Moon Guanyin.
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