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Lot 443
A SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF SADAKSHARILOKESHVARA
Estimated Value:
12.000 € - 15.000 €
Result:
12.950 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
Tibet, ca. 14th cent.H. 27 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with his principal hands in anjalimudra while both secondary hands holding the rosary and lotus flower, wearing diaphanous dhoti, bejewelled, his face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows that run into the nose-bridge, raised urna at his forehead, smiling lips, elongated earlobes with pierced ear plugs, his hair combed in a chignon topped with a ratna and secured with a five-leaf tiara ornamented with a pair of floating ribbons, unsealed.
Collection John ‘Moke’ Mokotoff (1950-2022) assembled according tradition before 2000
John Mokotoff, a devoted Buddhist practitioner, passionate collector, and esteemed dealer of Asian art. After studying expressive art and photography in school, Moke moved to New York, where he began to deal in the nascent market for Chinese, Indian, and Himalayan art. In 1980, Moke opened his first gallery, Mokotoff Asian Arts, and actively sold important works to some of the most prominent collections in New York and globally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Rubin Museum of Art. Revered for his knowledge of Chinese and Indian textiles, Moke was also a compassionate teacher and lifelong patron of Buddhist monasteries and nunneries, including the gift of one of his most important works, a very rare eighteenth-century painting of Sakya Pandita to the monk, Sakya Trizin, the living incarnation of Chogyal Phagpa - Wear, minor rest.
