Lot 955
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A SILVER- AND COPPER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
A SILVER- AND COPPER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
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A SILVER- AND COPPER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA

SWAT VALLEY OR KASHMIR, 9TH-10TH CENTURY

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A SILVER- AND COPPER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
SWAT VALLEY OR KASHMIR, 9TH-10TH CENTURY
Seated in dhyanasana on a throne supported by lions over a lotus base, holding a waterpot in the lower proper left hand, with a lotus blossoming at the proper left shoulder, the other hands spread around him in various mudras, the face with copper-inlaid lips and silver-inlaid eyes surmounted by an ornate crown
5 ½ in. (14 cm.) high
Provenance
Spink and Son, Ltd., London, 6 June 1980.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.
Literature
P. Pal, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, 1997, p. 136, cat. no. 176.
Exhibited
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection,” 2 August-26 October 1997, cat. no. 176.

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Lot Essay


Traces of blue polychromy at the hair and cold gold at the face and neck indicate that this unidentified bodhisattva was later absorbed into a Tibetan collection. It was also later incised with the Tibetan numeral “3” at the back of the throne, indicating the position of the bronze within a larger set.

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