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Lot 49

A BRONZE FIGURE OF A BUDDHA

Estimated Value:

900 € - 1.500 €

Schätzpreis:

1.300 €

Description:

China, 18th c.
H. 25,6 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with both hands in the bodhyagrimudra, wearing a monastic garment including an underskirt and a mantle covering both shoulders, its border cast with a scrolling tendril design, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, urna at his forehead, elongated earlobes, the hair continuing into the low ushnisha and set with an elaborate crown.
From an old southern German private collection, supplemented by inheritance in the 1950s and acquisitions in the 1960s to the 1980s - Crown and spine with small repairs