Chinese mountain throne Kuan Yin scroll, colored inks on paper mounted on a shimmering golds and light blue, silk brocade in a leafy vines, overlaid with seal script characters pattern. Signed, Zhang Daquian, with two red seal marks. the scroll has mahogany jikusaki at the bottom and a dark bronze, silk makio and kakeo at the top. Circa Republic of China era no later than mid century. Excellent vintage condition. Image size is 19.375" wide x 39" high A finely drawn and detailed depiction of a pensive, seated Kuan Yin, wearing the crown of Amitabha Buddha, dressed in flowing robes and seated in lalitasana on a throne of grasses laid down upon a level rocky shore next to a river, with the Jar of the Water of Life and the Willow Branch above her on a rocky outcrop.