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A bronze figure of a lokapala
Tang Dynasty
The figure with thick frowning brows beneath a high topknot, the bare
muscular torso energetically twisting to the right with the right arm reaching
downwards and the left arm raised above the shoulder, the right foot planted
squarely and the left heel raised, the loin cloth sweeping out behind the figure,
all raised on a separately-cast square plinth.
15.5cm (6 1/8in) high
£2,000 - 3,000
HK$24,000 - 35,000 CNY19,000 - 28,000
唐 銅天王立像
Provenance: H.R.N. Norton (b.? - d.1961-2), collection no.66
Exhibited and published: The Oriental Ceramic Society, Loan Exhibition of the
Arts of the T’ang Dynasty, London, 1955, Catalogue no.361 (see fig.1 below).
來源：諾頓(H.R.N. Norton)收藏系列(其出生年不詳,卒於1961-2年)，編號66
展覽：東方陶瓷學會，《Loan Exhibition of the Arts of the T’ang Dynasty》，
倫敦，1955年，編號361
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A small bronze figure of a seated Bodhisattva
Probably Nepalese, circa 11th-13th century
The heavily cast small figure with incised highly-arched brows beneath a
tall three-pointed crown, the eyes half-closed in contemplation, the broad
shoulders above a long narrow waist covered with a flowing robe with richly-
decorated hems, the hands resting in dhyana mudra and the legs crossed in the
lotus position.
11.1cm (4 3/8in) high
£8,000 - 12,000
HK$94,000 - 140,000 CNY75,000 - 110,000
擬尼泊爾，約十一至十三世紀 銅菩薩坐像
Compare gilt-bronze figures cast with similar simplicity and long narrow waists,
but larger, illustrated in U.von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, Vol.Two.
Tibet & China, Hong Kong, 2001, nos.291A-E.

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A bronze figure of Amitabha
Tibet, 13th/14th century
The Bodhisattva cast with eyes downcast in serene contemplation beneath
high incised brows, the hair raised in a topknot behind an elaborate Buddhist
crown of foliate peaks linked with ribbons falling down towards the stylised
lotus stems rising on either side of the slender-waisted torso and long arms also
embellished with foliate jewellery, the arms held gently in dhyanamudra above
the crossed legs, the figure seated on a separately-cast double-lotus pedestal.
40.6cm (16in) high (2).
£8,000 - 12,000
HK$94,000 - 140,000 CNY75,000 - 110,000
西藏十三/十四世紀 銅無量壽佛坐像
Provenance: a European private collection
來源：歐洲私人收藏
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No lot
271

fig.1 Exhibited and published: The Oriental Ceramic Society, Loan
Exhibition of the Arts of the T’ang Dynasty, London, 1955, no.361

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