Sale 2551
New York
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21 March 2012
Price realised
USD 40,000
Estimate
A gilt bronze figure of Jambhala Tibeto-Chinese, 18th century Seated on a lion over a lotus base, his right hand in vitarkamudra with his left holding a mongoose, dressed in a festooned robe and adorned with streaming ribbons, the face with hooked nose and sharply arched brows flanked by large hoop earrings, the hair pulled into a high chignon, the base with incised scrollwork and sealed with a double-vajra 7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Private Collection, Illinois, before 1993
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