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Lot 1
A FINE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI
Estimated Value:
1.500 € - 2.500 €
Result:
incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
Tibet, 14th/15th c.H. 12,8 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus-base with his right hand lowered in the bhumisparshamudra while the left is resting on his lap, wearing monastic garment including a mantle covering his left shoulder secured with a small section draped over this shoulder in the shape of a swallow’s tail, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into his nose-bridge, raised urna at his fore-head, blue-coloured curled hair-dress continuing into the ushnisha and topped with a lotus-bud, resealed.
Private collection, Bavaria, purchased from Schoettle East Asian Art 1969, no. 4672
Published: Schoettle Ostasiatica, Stuttgart, Autumn 1969, no. 4672, p. 36
A similar bronze is preserved on the collection of the Hermitage published in ‚108 Images of Buddha‘, Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Peter the Great Kunstkamera), St. Petersburg, 2014, pp. 118-119, no. 5942-131 - Minor wear to gilding, traces of age
