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Lot 33
A BRONZE FIGURE OF A LOCAL DEITY
Estimated Value:
1.200 € - 1.800 €
Schätzpreis:
1.700 €
Description:
Tibeto-Chinese, late 18th c.H. 16,5 cm
Seated astride his long-haired goat trotting over waters encompassed by a mountain range, both arms stretched outwards with the hands showing the tarjanimudra, wearing various garments including a wide-sleeved mantle secured with a belt around his body, shoes, his face displaying a wrathful expression with protruding eyes below bushy eyebrows, open mouth framed by moustache and beard, elongated earlobes with ear-discs and his head topped with a rimmed bonnet.
Important German private collection, assembled in the 1970s and 80s, partly acquired by Schoettle Ostasiatische Kunst, Stuttgart
Minor wear, attributes lost
