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Lot *15
A BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI
Estimated Value:
4.000 € - 6.000 €
Schätzpreis:
15.000 €
Description:
Tibet, 16th/ 17th ct.H. 21,4 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus-base with his right hand lowered in bhumisparshamudra while the left is resting in dhyanamudra on his lap, wearing diaphanous monastic cloak, its border incised with a wavy design, his cold-gilded face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below incised arched eyebrows, raised urna at his forehead, smiling lips, elongated earlobes, curled hairdo-continuing into the ushnisha and topped with a lotus-bud, unsealed
From a private collection in southern Germany (Formerly the J. R. Belmont von Rickenbach Collection, acquired in Asia in the 1940s), received by inheritance in 1985
Minor wear, unsealed
