MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY

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A GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA
MING DYNASTY, 15TH CENTURY
Seated in dyanasana on a double lotus base with hands in dhyanamudra, wearing simple robes with incised foliate borders falling in graceful folds, the face well cast in a meditative expression flanked by the large ears beneath the tight whorls of hair surmounted by a tall usnisa, with traces of gilt lacquer
12¾ in. (32.4 cm.) high, wood stand

Provenance

Acquired from Lee Cheong & Co., Jakarta, in the 1930s.

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Lot Essay

The full, yet somewhat squared facial features, robust body and stylization of the boldly cast lotus lappet base all indicate a fifteenth century date. Compare, for example, a related gilt-bronze figure of Bhaisajyaguru Buddha, dated to the first year of Jingtai (1450), illustrated in Gems of Beijing Cultural Relics Series: Buddhist Statues (I), Beijing, 1999, p. 153, no. 115. See, also, the fifteenth century gilt-lacquered bronze figure of the seated Buddha sold in these rooms, 24-25 March 2011, lot 1630.

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