Lot 8
8
A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA

NORTHEASTERN INDIA, PALA PERIOD, 12TH CENTURY

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A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
NORTHEASTERN INDIA, PALA PERIOD, 12TH CENTURY
Seated with his right knee up on a lotus base with offset petals and holding a lotus stem in the left hand, wearing a striped dhoti with wavy pleats, the face with silver-inlaid eyes and urna, flanked by elongated lobes and surmounted by a tiara
3 1/3 in. (8.5 cm.) high
Provenance
The Sporer Collection, New Jersey, acquired between 1962 and 1985

Lot Essay

Compare with a similar sculpture of a bodhisattva from the Pala period (U. von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, 2008, pp.282-283, fig.69D). For an example of the persistence of the inlay tradition in Northeastern India and its transmission into the Himalayas, see an 18th century sculpture of Manjushri from Tibet (lot 40).

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