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A BLACK STONE FIGURE OF BUDDHA
NEPAL, 9TH CENTURY

Standing in tribhanga wearing a thin close-ftting
sanghati, his face with serene expression and heavily-
lidded downcast eyes, fanked by elongated ears, and
surmounted by thick curls pulled over the ushnisha
17 in. (43.2 cm.) high

$40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE:

Private collection, Michigan, acquired in London, 23
May 1988

PUBLISHED:

Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org), item
no. 24007

Stylistically, this work can be compared with an early
bronze fgure of Buddha from either Northeastern
India or Nepal, at the Cleveland Museum of Art
(1968.40). Both fgures are depicted in a gentle
tribhanga with emphasis on the feshy suppleness of
the body under a thin simple robe.

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