A JAPANESE GILT-LACQUERED FIGURE OF KANNON FUKUKENJAKU , MEIJI PERIOD, 1868 - 1912

Standing on a lotus issuing from a rockery, the four-armed deity with her principle hands raised in veneration, gassho-mudra, the secondary hands holding a jewel, clad in a flowing robe with drooping sleeves, her pensive face beneath an elaborate crown centered by the Buddha Amida, her neck with a metal butterfly-shaped necklace, munakazari, all before a large gilded nimbus carved with swirling clouds, age wear, gilt loss, soiling, paint loss46cm high