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Lot 174

A BRONZE FIGURE OF PROBABLY ANANDA

Estimated Value:

2.500 € - 3.500 €

Schätzpreis:

20.000 €

Description:

China, 17th/18th ct
H. 43,3 cm
Standing in samabhanga on a shaped pedestal with both hands in anjalimudra, wearing various monastic robes including a wide-sleeved mantle covering both shoulders secured with a clasp placed at his left shoulder, its borders incised with scrolling tendrils, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into his nose-bridge, urna, elongated earlobes and shaven head.
From an old southern German private collection, supplemented by inheritance in the 1950s and acquisitions in the 1960s to the 1980s - Wear, slightly chipped