A gilt-bronze figure of Avalokiteshvara ChaturbhujaTibet, 17th/18th century
Finely cast seated on a double-lotus pedestal with the primary hands clasped in front and the remaining two hands raised holding a necklace and a lotus stem, wearing a thin dhoti and a shawl, adorned with elaborate jewellery, the face with a serene expression framed by a foliate tiara surrounding a high chignon.
15cm (6in) high.注脚西藏 十七/十八世紀 銅鎏金四臂觀音像

Himalayan Art Resources item no.16782
喜馬拉雅藝術資源網16782號

Provenance:
Henry Harrison Getty (1838-1919), by repute
Alice Getty (d.1946), by repute
Courtenay Morgan, Viscount Tredegar (1867-1934), by repute
Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (1893-1949), by repute
Professor and Mrs Bellerby, by repute
Mark Dineley (1901-1975)
Peter Dineley (1938-2018), and thence by descent

Noted in the handwritten family 'A Catalogue of the Dineley Collection of Tibetiana and Associated Buddhistic Objects', early 1960s, p.96.

來源：
傳亨利·哈里遜·蓋蒂舊藏（1838-1919年）
傳愛麗絲·蓋蒂舊藏（卒於1946年）
傳卓德嘉子爵考特尼·摩根舊藏（1867-1934年）
傳特里迪格子爵二世艾文·摩根舊藏（1893-1949年）
傳貝勒比教授及夫人舊藏
馬克·戴尼利舊藏（1901-1975年）
彼得·戴尼利舊藏（1938-2018年），並由家族繼承

記載於戴尼利家族手稿《戴尼利家族的西藏州和相關的佛教物品收藏目錄》'A Catalogue of the Dineley Collection of Tibetiana and Associated Buddhistic Objects'，1960年代初，頁96。

Chaturbhuja is one of the most commonly depicted deities among the different iconographic forms of Avalokiteshvara. The four-armed Avalokiteshvara is also sometimes referred to as Shadakshari, the embodiment of the most common and well known mantra of Avalokteshvara, Om mani padme hum. The six syllables are considered the seeds of the six realms in the great cosmic wheel.

佛像髮髻高聳，頭戴牌飾及瓔珞，雙耳垂肩，墜以花型耳飾，髮披兩肩，袒右肩露乳，膊攏哈達，雙手結禪定印，托無量壽寶瓶，寶瓶插花垂帶，全跏趺坐於單瓣仰蓮臺上，封底鏨刻十字金剛杵，通體鎏金，髮染紺紫，首飾嵌松石。四臂觀音為觀世音菩薩的其中一種應化身，四臂另代表四種佛行：息、增、懷、誅。右後手持水晶念珠代表救渡眾生出離輪迴、左手持一白蓮代表淨化一切煩惱。其心咒為六字大明咒，六個種子字分別對應輪迴中的六道。菩薩慈悲為懷，用以加持、淨化六道眾生的惡業、惡習及惡障，走向六成就悉地。