An Old Chinese Dehua high quality detailed white porcelain statue of Guanyin with eight immortals hands. Circa: late 19th century to early 20th century. Guanyin is a character of Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Japanese mythology, a bodhisattva or a deity who appears mainly in a female form, saving people from all sorts of disasters; giver of children, obstetrician, patroness of the female half of the house. In China, Guanyin is generally portrayed as a young woman wearing a flowing white robe, and usually also necklaces symbolic of Indian or Chinese royalty. In the thousand handed image, each palm has an eye: with them, the Bodhisattva is combined with everyone who is in trouble in countless worlds of the Universe, with countless hands she saves them. Presented in a cardboard box. Asian Oriental Porcelain Figurines, Figures, Statues, and Collectibles.

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