the deity seated in meditative pose, one hand securing a small child, the other hand slightly raised, wearing a voluminous wide-sleeved white robe bordered with a green-ground chevron pattern and centered with yellow, aubergine and black foliate motifs on a green ground, adorned with an applied tasseled beaded necklace, the unglazed hair neatly pulled into a top knot, surmounted by a cowl painted with florets and a central 'pearl', falling gently over the shoulders and framing the delicately featured face bearing a benign expression, all raised on a balustraded hexagonal throne with three overlapping rows of lotus petals over a central green-ground foliate-decorated panel enclosing a crane with spread wings between ruyi pierced diaper-ground panels (2)

Chait Galleries，紐約，1980年代

One hand and three fingers of the other hand; as well as the child's hand and lotus, all restored. Firing flaws to the back of the cowl. The base with consolidating spray on the lotus petals. One finial of the gallery restored. Flake chip to one edge of platform for figure.
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