XUANDE INCISED SIX-CHARACTER PRESENTATION MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

Although examples bearing a Yongle presentation mark of this four-armed emanation of the Manjusri are known, no other figure inscribed with a Xuande presentation mark appears to have been published. Compare with published Yongle-marked examples such as the figure in the British Museum, London, illustrated in Buddhism Art and Faith, 1985, no. 308; in the Berti Aschmann Foundation of Tibetan Art, illustrated in On the Path to Enlightenment, 1995, no. 67; in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, illustrated in Wisdom and Compassion, 1996, no. 30 and formerly in the Speelman Collection, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7 October 2006, lot 804.