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QIANLONG PERIOD, INCISED WITH CYCLICAL GENGYIN DATE, CORRESPONDING TO 1770, AND OF THE PERIOD
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A GILT-BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF AMITAYUS
QIANLONG PERIOD, INCISED WITH CYCLICAL GENGYIN DATE, CORRESPONDING TO 1770, AND OF THE PERIOD
The figure is seated in padmasana on a rectangular openwork plinth, with hands in dhyanamudra. He is dressed in robes draped over the left shoulder and wears a jewelled necklace. The face is modelled with a pensive expression beneath hair pulled up into an elaborate coiffure and fronted by a five-pointed diadem. The figure sits before a detachable flaming mandorla.
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high
QIANLONG PERIOD, INCISED WITH CYCLICAL GENGYIN DATE, CORRESPONDING TO 1770, AND OF THE PERIOD
The figure is seated in padmasana on a rectangular openwork plinth, with hands in dhyanamudra. He is dressed in robes draped over the left shoulder and wears a jewelled necklace. The face is modelled with a pensive expression beneath hair pulled up into an elaborate coiffure and fronted by a five-pointed diadem. The figure sits before a detachable flaming mandorla.
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high
Provenance
Property of a Nordic Gentleman.
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Leila de vos van Steenwijk