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A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF MAITREYA
TIBET, CIRCA 17TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no.68462
23.7 cm (9 3/8 in.) high
HKD1,000,000 - 1,500,000

西藏 約十七世紀 銅鎏金彌勒像

Published
David Weldon and Jane Casey Singer, The Sculptural Heritage of
Tibet: Buddhist Art in the Nyingjei Lam Collection, London, 1999,
pp.120-21. Pl.27.
David Weldon, “Tibetan Sculpture Inspired by Earlier Foreign
Sculptural Styles”, The Tibet Journal, Vol.27, No.1/2, 2002,
pp.11&13, figs.3&6.

Exhibited
The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet: Buddhist Art in the Nyingjei Lam
Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 6 October – 30 December
1999.
Arte Buddhista Tibetana: Dei e Demoni dell’Himalaya, Palazzo
Bricherasio, Turin, 18 June – 19 September 2004.
Casting the Divine: Sculptures of the Nyingjei Lam Collection, Rubin
Museum of Art, New York, 2 March 2012 – 11 February 2013.

Provenance
The Nyingjei Lam Collection
On loan to the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1996-2005
On loan to the Rubin Museum of Art, New York, 2005-2021

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