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Masterpieces of Oriental Art. 5

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

Dora Gordine
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A chinese mason will give preternatural length to the arms of a Kuan-yin so as to include the pedestal in the proportions of the design. And this eye for composition has made coiffure and coronet such integral parts of these two heads that without them the faces would lose half their distinction.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 77 , Issue 3-4 , October 1945 , pp. 113
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1945

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