POSSIBLY KOREAN (DATE UNKNOWN)

Details

A Répoussé Bronze Figure of a Buddha
Possibly Korean (date unknown)
The u-shaped folds of the drapery rendered by incised lines and the patina greenish-black; top of the coiffure hammered but intact, wood stand
5 7/8in. (15cm.) high

Provenance

Henry H. Getty
Purchased from Walter Weinberger & Co., Ltd., 1950.5

Exhibited

Musée Cernuschi, Paris, "Hommage à Renée Grousset," 1954

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Alice Getty, The Gods of Northern Buddhism: Their History and Iconography (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1988 [reprint of 1928 edition]), no. 6c, as Gautama Buddha, Korean
Hommage à René Grousset, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée Cernuschi, 1954), no. 103.

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