A Gilded Dry Lacquer Figure of a Seated Bodhisattva

YUAN/MING DYNASTY

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A Gilded Dry Lacquer Figure of a Seated Bodhisattva
Yuan/Ming Dynasty
Shown seated in virasana, with right hand raised and left lying in the lap, with elongated torso and narrow shoulders and wearing loosely draped robes and bracelets, the broad, flat face with broad nose and deeply slit eyes, the smooth hair dressed in long slender tresses looped up under the gold fillet and knotted atop each shoulder, covered in dark red lacquer and gilding, the hair black
25¼in. (64.1cm.) high

Lot Essay

In the modeling of the facial features this figure appears to be related to a gilded dry lacquer figure of a seated bodhisattva of comparable size dated Yuan dynasty included in the exhibition, Buddhist Sculpture: Design and Influence, Michael B. Weisbrod, Inc., New York, 1992, no. 26. See, also, the gilt-bronze figure of a seated Guanyin with similar features and fillet encircling the hair dressed in similar knotted tresses in the Avery Brundage Collection illustrated by d'Argencé et al, Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture, Japan, 1974, pl. 157. The figure is dated to the Ming dynasty and bears a dated insription possibly corresponding to 1452.

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