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Lot 59
A BRONZE FIGURE OF AVALOKITESHVARA
Estimated Value:
1.500 € - 2.500 €
Result:
3.108 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
Tibet, 17th/ 18th c.H. 18,5 cm
Standing in tribhanga on a separate cast lotus base with the hands in varadamudra and vitarkamudra, wearing dhoti, bejewelled, his cold-gilded face displaying a serene expression, his blue coloured hairdo combed in a chignon and secured with a tiara, unsealed.
From an old and important German private collection, collected between 1950 and 1987, collection number C 75
Published: U. Toyka-Fuong, Ikonographie und Symbolik des tibetischen Buddhismus, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1987, C 75, pp. 190 and 191 - Wear, traces of age
