17TH/18TH CENTURY

The present pair of gilt-bronze figures of monks would likely have accompanied a larger, central figure, and would have been placed on either side. Compare the related treatment of the lotus base and robes seen on a larger (17.2 cm.) gilt-bronze figure of Kasyapa, dated to the 16th/17th century, illustrated by J. Spencer in Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1993, p. 153, no. 69.