A SMALL GILT-BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF BUDDHA

TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)

Details

A SMALL GILT-BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF BUDDHA
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907)
The figure is shown seated in dhyanasana with right hand raised in abhayamudra, the left resting on the left knee, and wearing robes that drape gracefully around the body and fall in deep, graceful folds over and below the legs. A pierced attachment tab projects from the back, and another from the back bottom edge.
3 1/8 in. (6.8 cm.) high, later gilt-wood stand

Provenance

Private collection, Japan, acquired before 1930.

Lot Essay

This diminutive figure of Buddha is very similar to one shown seated on a pedestal base raised on a faceted stand with open sides in the collection of the Asian Art Museum, San Franciso, illustrated by Jin Shen in Hai wai ji Gang Yai cang li dai fo xiang: zhen pin ji nian tu jian (Catalogue of Treasures of Buddhist Sculpture in Overseas Collections Including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Shanxi, 2007, p. 491 (top).

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