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Lot 451
A LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF RATNASAMBHAVA
Estimated Value:
30.000 € - 50.000 €
Result:
incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
Tibet, 14th cent.H. 40,5 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with his right hand lowered in varadamudra while the left is resting on his lap, wearing diaphanous dhoti, scarf floating around his shoulders, encircling his arms and its streamers falling down, bejewelled, his cold-gilded face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows that run into his nose-bridge, raised urna at his forehead, elongated earlobes with ear ornaments, his blue coloured hairdo combed in a chignon topped with the ratna emblem and secured with a five-leaf tiara decorated with a pair of pattras and curling ribbons, unsealed.
According to the present owner from the collection of Madame Françoise Leroy-Laveissiere. The collection has been asssmbled between 1960 and 1990, during this period she was a AsianArt expert at Hotel Drouot and worked in collaboration with the famous chinese art expert Michel Beurdeley - Wear, minor traces of age and rest.
