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Lot 179
A FINE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
Estimated Value:
2.500 € - 3.500 €
Schätzpreis:
4.500 €
Description:
Tibeto-Chinese, 18th c.H. 17 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus-base with his right hand lowered in a form of varadamudra while the left is raised in varadamudra, wearing dhoti, its border incised with a design of scrolling tendrils, cape draped around his shoulders with its streamers encircling both arms, bejewelled, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, elongated earlobes with floral-shaped ear ornaments, his hair combed in a chignon and secured with a tiara decorated with a pair of floating ribbons, unsealed.
Formerly from an old southern German private collection, collected in the 1980s/ 90s - Very minor old repairs, very minor wear to gilding and traces of age
