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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE MIDWEST COLLECTION

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A SILVER-INLAID GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF MANJUSHRI
TIBET, 16TH CENTURY
Base sealed and incised with a double-vajra
10 in. (25.3 cm.) high

$50,000-70,000

PROVENANCE:

Acquired by 1975.

PUBLISHED:

Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org), item no. 24154

Compare the elegant modeling of the body, elongated face,
beaded and inlaid jewelry and crown shape with a sixteenth-
century bronze fgure of Amitayus in the British Museum,
1958.7-19.1 (illustrated right).

A Gilt Copper Figure of Amitayus,
16th century, Tibet, 18.3 cm. high
The British Museum, London (1958.7-19.1)
U. von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes,
Hong Kong, 1981, p. 440, fg. 118B