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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
A GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
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A GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
The Buddha is seated in dhyanasana with his hands held in bhumisparsha mudra. He wears a monk's layered robes and his hair is dressed in tight curls that continue up over the ushnisha above his extended ear lobes. The figure is raised on a separate double-lotus-petal base with conforming foot of stylized lotus petals. Together with an additional gilt bronze double-lotus base.
28 in. (71.1 cm.) high including base
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
The Buddha is seated in dhyanasana with his hands held in bhumisparsha mudra. He wears a monk's layered robes and his hair is dressed in tight curls that continue up over the ushnisha above his extended ear lobes. The figure is raised on a separate double-lotus-petal base with conforming foot of stylized lotus petals. Together with an additional gilt bronze double-lotus base.
28 in. (71.1 cm.) high including base
Provenance
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 16 January 1957, lot 435.
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Vicki Paloympis (潘薇琦)
Head of Department, VP, Specialist