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Lot 150
A BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI
Estimated Value:
900 € - 1.500 €
Schätzpreis:
1.100 €
Description:
Tibet, ca. 16th c.H. 15,7 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with his right hand lowered in bhumisparshamudra while the left is resting on his lap, wearing diaphanous monastic garment including a mantle covering his left shoulder and draped with a textile section in the shape of a swallow’s tail, his cold-gilded face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into the nose-bridge, raised urna at his forehead, elongated earlobes and the curled hairdo continuing into the ushnisha topped with a lotus bud, resealed.
From an old southern German private collection, supplemented by inheritance in the 1950s and acquisitions in the 1960s to the 1980s - Wear
