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Subject:Wood statue Kuan-jin
Posted By: Martin Tue, Dec 02, 2014 IP: 77.78.117.13
Hello,
Please collectors for information on what time period this statue is about and what is the price?
The height of the statue is 85 cm. On the statue of the Chinese export number of wax.

Thank you very much Martin

Photos are here:

http://snowmont.rajce.idnes.cz/Chinese

Subject:Re: Wood statue Kuan-jin
Posted By: Bill H Wed, Dec 03, 2014
This comment concerns only the Chinese Customs seal, or jianding on the statue shown in your photos. Heres' a picture of another, which coincidentally also is on a Chinese wood carving of the goddess Guanyin (as spelled in Mandarin pinyin). The English writing on this seal reads "CUSTOMS PERMISSION", whereas what is written on the one you show seems to be something else. A seal identical to the one I've uploaded here (except for the seal number) is illustrated on the gotheborg.com website as having come into use around 1997. Are you confident that that the customs seal on the statue in your photos was applied in China. If not, you might want to consider whether it and the statue might be fake.

Best regards,

Bill H.



Subject:Re: Wood statue Kuan-jin
Posted By: Ernest Wilhelm Wed, Dec 03, 2014
Photo shows Buddha, not Quan Yin.
Ernest

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