Lot 72
72
A GILT-WOOD FIGURE OF AMITABHA

Details
A GILT-WOOD FIGURE OF AMITABHA
choson period (18th century)

Seated dhyanasana with hands held in vitarkamudra (gesture of appeasement), the head of rounded-rectangular shape surmounted by a gilt usnisa above rows of thick coiled hair, the head titled slightly forward and the eyes downcast under slender arched brows, the lips closed and painted red below a pencil-line black mustache and the ears slender with characteristic large lobes, the body draped in a flowing robe open at the chest and falling in petal-like pleats below the knees, flat base not gilded--12½in. (31.7cm.) high

Lot Essay

Published
Julia F. Andrews, Korean Art in Western Collections: 13, The Collection of Robert Moore, Part 2: Recent and Unpublished Acquisitions, Korean Culture, vol. 7, no. 1 (Los Angeles: Korean Cultural Service, March, 1986), pl. 3, p. 20