A SMALL GILT-BRONZE STANDING FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA

UNIFIED SILLA DYNASTY (8TH CENTURY)

Details

A SMALL GILT-BRONZE STANDING FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
UNIFIED SILLA DYNASTY (8TH CENTURY)
Solid cast, with flat back and flat reverse of the head, gilded in bright yellow gold on the face, body and splayed lotus plinth that is hollow on the underside
3 ½ in. (8.9 cm) high

Provenance

Private collection, Japan, acquired prior to 1930

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Lot Essay

For a similar figure, see Matsubara Saburo, Kankoku kondobutsu kenkyu: Kodai Chosen kondobutsu no keifu (Study of Korean gilt-bronze Buddhas: The lineage of ancient Korean gilt-bronze Buddhas) (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kobunkan, 1985), nos. a-e, p. 87.

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