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Lot 38
A RARE SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF AKSHOBHYA
Estimated Value:
10.000 € - 15.000 €
Result:
16.835 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
Tibet, 16th c,H. 25,2 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base decorated with the vajra emblem to its front, placed on a rectangular throne cast with a central vajra emblem flanked to each side by an elephant, his right hand lowered in bhumisparshamudra while the left is resting on his lap, wearing monastic garment including an underskirt secured around the waist with a belt and a patchwork mantle covering both shoulders, his cold-gilded face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below raised arched eyebrows running into the nose-bridge, raised urna at his forehead, elongated earlobes touching his shoulders and the blue coloured curled hairdo continuing into the ushnisha topped with a lotus bud, sealed.
From an old and important German private collection, collected between 1950 and 1987, collection number C 24
Published: U. Toyka-Fuong, Ikonographie und Symbolik des tibetischen Buddhismus, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1987, C 24, pp. 62 and 63 - Wear and slightly chipped, mandorla lost
