A FINE AND RARE SMALL POLYCHROME BRONZE FIGURE OF THE ASCETIC SAKYAMUNI

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A FINE AND RARE SMALL POLYCHROME BRONZE FIGURE OF THE ASCETIC SAKYAMUNI
17TH CENTURY

The figure finely and crisply cast as an ascetic with a thin pointed face, the emaciated bare upper body exposing protruding collar bones and ribs, wearing a dhoti delicately enamelled with a cloud pattern, the body enamelled buff-yellow to simulate the skin, the figure seated resting his right elbow on the corresponding raised knee, accommodated in a jichimu grotto finely carved as a rocky mountain boulder with intermittent bursts of pine trees and vegetation
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) high, box

Lot Essay

Compare the present figure with a gilt brass Ming dynasty emaciated Siddhartha, illustrated by von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, p. 528, no. 150B; and a bronze image in the Warren Cox collection, New York, illustrated by Munsterberg, Chinese Buddhist Bronzes, Hacker, no. 122. The present example realistically portray Sakyamuni in a state of fasting and meditation in the hope of gaining salvation.

(US$11,000-13,000)

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