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Lot 274
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF MANJUSHRI
Estimated Value:
5.000 € - 8.000 €
Schätzpreis:
11.000 €
Description:
Tibeto-Chinese, early 18th c.H. 16,6 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with both hands raised in the dharmacakramudra, each hand holding the stem of a lotus flowering along his upper arm supporting the sword respectively the manuscript, wearing dhoti fastened around the waist with a belt, scarf draped around his shoulders with it streamers encircling both arms and their finials falling down the lotus base, jewellery set with semi-precious stones, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, elongated earlobes set with large pierced ornaments, his blue coloured hair combed in a chignon topped with a ratna and secured with a five-leaf tiara decorated with a pair of floating ribbons, resealed.
From an old southern German private collection, supplemented by inheritance in the 1950s and acquisitions in the 1960s to the 1980s - Few inlays lost
