2-648-697 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Gilt Bronze Figure of Kuan-Yin', 334 AD, (1936). Guanyin or Guan Yin is an East Asian bodhisattva associated with compassion as venerated by Mahayana Buddhists. The photograph was taken for the International Exhibition of Chinese Art at the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London. The piece is part of the Eumorfopoulos Collection, London. From The Connoisseur, Vol. 97, edited by H. Granville Fell. [International Studio, London, 1936]