Lot Essay
This nagare botoke (flowing Buddha) would have been an offering made to Buddhist deities left floating in a river.
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HEIAN PERIOD (12TH CENTURY)
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A JAPANESE NAGARE BOTOKE SCULPTURE OF A BOSATSU
HEIAN PERIOD (12TH CENTURY)
Carved from Japanese cypress wood in a single-block technique (ichiboku-zukuri) and lacking defined features
13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) high
HEIAN PERIOD (12TH CENTURY)
Carved from Japanese cypress wood in a single-block technique (ichiboku-zukuri) and lacking defined features
13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) high
Exhibited
London, Oliver Hoare, Every Object Tells a Story, 2017, no.240
Sale room notice
Please note that a wood sample from this lot has been tested by RadioCarbon Dating, reference RCD-9302, giving with 95% confidence a date within the interval AD 1037 to AD 1204. The report is available upon request.
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