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Property from the Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth
A Gilt bronze figure of Buddha
TIBETO-CHINESE, KANGXI PERIOD, 17TH CENTURY
Details
A Gilt bronze figure of Buddha
Tibeto-Chinese, Kangxi Period, 17th Century
Seated in dhyanasana on a double lotus base with his hands in the gesture of teaching, wearing a diaphanous sanghati with very finely incised borders and gathered in elegant folds at the shoulder, the face in a meditative expression, the base with very finely executed petal frieze and beaded rim, richly gilt overall, the base sealed and incised with the double-vajra
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high
Tibeto-Chinese, Kangxi Period, 17th Century
Seated in dhyanasana on a double lotus base with his hands in the gesture of teaching, wearing a diaphanous sanghati with very finely incised borders and gathered in elegant folds at the shoulder, the face in a meditative expression, the base with very finely executed petal frieze and beaded rim, richly gilt overall, the base sealed and incised with the double-vajra
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Christian Humann, Pan-Asian Collection, before 1977