A Chinese silver-inlaid dark bronze figure of a bodhisattva Guanyin

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A Chinese silver-inlaid dark bronze figure of a bodhisattva Guanyin sitting on a rock rising out of the sea, her robes, which fall gracefully around her body, are inlaid in silver wire with clouds and scroll borders and on the back with a Shisou mark. In her right hand she hold a scroll and her hair is gathered in a topknot secured by a hair pin. ‘Uncle Shi (Shisou)’ is a mark used since the Ming dynasty on silver inlayed bronze figures.