Lot Essay
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EARLY TANG DYNASTY, 8TH CENTURY
Details
A RARE GRAY LIMESTONE FIGURE OF MAHASTHAMAPRAPTA
Early Tang Dynasty, 8th Century
Well carved standing in tribhanga atop a waisted lotus base, holding a lotus stem in the pendent right hand, wearing a beaded necklace, a shawl and a diaphanous dhoti falling in deep U-shaped folds to just above the feet, the face carved with serene expression and small, sensuous mouth and the hair dressed in a high, looped topknot decorated with flowers and pendent ribbons and in front with an elixir bottle, with buff-colored accretions on the dark gray stone
26.3/8in. (67cm.) high
Early Tang Dynasty, 8th Century
Well carved standing in tribhanga atop a waisted lotus base, holding a lotus stem in the pendent right hand, wearing a beaded necklace, a shawl and a diaphanous dhoti falling in deep U-shaped folds to just above the feet, the face carved with serene expression and small, sensuous mouth and the hair dressed in a high, looped topknot decorated with flowers and pendent ribbons and in front with an elixir bottle, with buff-colored accretions on the dark gray stone
26.3/8in. (67cm.) high
Provenance
Yamanaka & Company, New York
Grenville Winthrop Collection, New York
Frank Caro - successor to C.T. Loo, New York, no. H3064, June 1961 James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago
Eskenazi, London
Grenville Winthrop Collection, New York
Frank Caro - successor to C.T. Loo, New York, no. H3064, June 1961 James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago
Eskenazi, London
Literature
O. Sirn, Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century, London, 1925, vol. 3, pl. 372B
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 27, 1944, lot 805
F.H. Taylor, House of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1954, no. 74
J.V. Sewell, Chinese Art from the Collection of James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf, Chicago, 1970, no. 22
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 27, 1944, lot 805
F.H. Taylor, House of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1954, no. 74
J.V. Sewell, Chinese Art from the Collection of James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf, Chicago, 1970, no. 22
Exhibited
Houston, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 1954
Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chinese Art from the Collection of James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf, 1970, no. 22
London, Eskenazi, Ancient Chinese Sculpture from the Alsdorf Collection and Others, 12 June - 6 July, 1990, no. 14
Chicago, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chinese Art from the Collection of James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf, 1970, no. 22
London, Eskenazi, Ancient Chinese Sculpture from the Alsdorf Collection and Others, 12 June - 6 July, 1990, no. 14