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Lot 279
A PARCEL GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
Estimated Value:
4.000 € - 6.000 €
Schätzpreis:
9.000 €
Description:
Tibeto-Chinese, 18th c.H. 20 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with both hands raised in the anjalimudra, wearing dhoti draped high around his middle and fastened with a ribbon knotted to the front and supplementary a belt, a scarf set around the shoulders with its streamers encircling his arms and their finials curling up, bejewelled, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes running into the nose-bridge, vertical third eye at his forehead, elongated earlobes with elaborate ear ornaments, the hair combed in a chignon with a pair of tresses falling down the shoulders, secured with an elaborate tiara cast to the front with a minute figure of Buddha Amitabhha, decorated with a pair of floating ribbons and inlaid with some beads, resealed.
From an old private collection in southern Germany, collected in the 1970s to 1990s - Minor wear
