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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 6, 2016 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Important Chinese Art | 3693 | $****** - ****** | AN IMPORTANT AND LARGE EARLY GILT-BRONZE VOTIVE FIGURE OF SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA |
sculpture
30 cm (11.81 in)
Gilt bronze
exquisitely and crisply cast with preserved gilding, the meditating Buddha seated with arms folded in dhyanamudra, the robes falling into neat pleats over the rounded figure, with a serene expression framed by pendulous ears and wavy hair piled into a domed ushnisha, the figure cast in front of an elaborate mandorla of multiple layers, consisting of a plain aureole around the head, swirling flames emanating from the body and distending to reticulated flickering flames, all supported on a stepped plinth raised on four splayed legs, the front with a band of geometric decoration above two robed devotees cast in low relief with their hands clasped prayerfully at the waist standing to either side of a cusped perimeter, the reverse of the flaming mandorla further impressed with an image of Buddha seated on a similar four-legged pedestal in front of a leaf-shaped mandorla with one hand raised in abayamudra and the other resting in dyanamudra, cast with a dedicatory inscription dated to the twelfth year of Taihe spreading two sides of the pedestal
