A monumental Khmer bronze figure of Avalokiteshvara Angkor period

A monumental Khmer bronze figure of Avalokiteshvara Angkor period, Bayon style, c.1300, cast with eight radiating arms, the hair, neck, upper arms, ankles and toes with small figures of the Buddha, with seated figures of what appear to be Prajnaparamita (The Goddess of Transcendent Wisdom) on the chest, holding various attributes, the hair in a raised chignon bearing a seated figure of Amitabha, 49.5cm. Provenance: a private Scottish collection. A metallographic analysis conducted by Frank Preusser and Associates Inc., Los Angeles is available. This figure of Avalokiteshvara, the Boddhisatva of Compassion, is a bronze version of one of the twenty three stone images of King Jayavarman VII sent to different parts of the kingdom in 1191 in memory of his father. Two other bronze radiating figures of similar size are known, an incomplete example in the Musée Guimet, and another in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, see cat. no. 97 in Angkor et dix siècles d'art Khmer, and cat. no. 28 in H W Woodward The Sacred Sculpture of Thailand: The Alexander B Griswold Collection.