Lot 102
102
A RARE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF ASCETIC SAKYAMUNI
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A RARE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF ASCETIC SAKYAMUNI

14TH/15TH CENTURY

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A RARE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF ASCETIC SAKYAMUNI
14TH/15TH CENTURY
Finely cast leaning slightly forward, the figure is seated with both hands folded over the raised right knee, modelled with pendulous ears, his moustache and beard combed in ringlets, his hair in tight curls surrounding an urna, wearing loose robes bordered with floral trim and cascading in folds around the body, the flat base with incised cloud scrolls, the hair with traces of blue pigment, wear to gilding
6 7/8 in. (17.3 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

This group of Sakyamuni figures seated in similar posture appeared to be a popular iconography from the Yuan dynasty. Compare to two Yuan dynasty examples: the first of carved wood in the Detroit Institute of Art, illustrated in Hai-wai Yi-chen, Chinese Art in Overseas Collections: Buddhist Sculpture, Taibei, 1990, p. 171, no. 158; and the other, a large gilt bronze (44.1 cm.) in the Cleveland Museum of Art, ibid., p. 172, no. 159. Compare also a lacquer wood figure, sold at Christie's London, 11 June 1990, lot 110.

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