A SPINACH-GREEN JADE BUDDHA WITHIN A GROTTO

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A SPINACH-GREEN JADE BUDDHA WITHIN A GROTTO
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Well carved with a figure of Buddha with hands held in gesture of dhyana mudra, wearing a long robe falling in naturalistic folds, seated in vajrasana atop a lotus plinth set in a rocky grotto, the reverse with a small pine tree growing from rockwork, the stone of a deep spinach-green tone mottled with paler shades of green
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high, stand

Lot Essay

Cf. the spinach jade grotto sold in London, 17 December 1996, lot 275; and also two other similarly seated jade Buddha carvings with the same hand gestures, the first illustrated in Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji, vol. 6, Qing, no. 334; and the other example illustrated in Guyu Renshen Xian Foguang, pl. 371.2.

(US$30,000-45,000)

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