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Thousand-Armed Guanyin

千手觀音

Mortise inlay · colour-led carving

Guanyin sits on a lotus throne. The treasures in her eighteen hands, the red and green bangles at her wrists and the necklace at her throat look as if all were cut from one remarkable stone. In fact the red and green pieces come from other stones, joined by the master’s own mortise-inlay technique — drawn from ancient Chinese joinery — so that separate jades become one, without a visible seam.

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