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A BRONZE FIGURE OF JAMBHALA
JAVA, 9TH/10TH CENTURY
5Ω in. (13 cm.) high
$7,000-9,000

PROVENANCE:

Richard Benedek Collection, New York.
Acquired by the current owner by 1974.
Property from the Sherry and Lawrence
Phillips Collection, Christie’s New York,
25 March 2004, lot 150.
Bonhams New York, 17 March 2014,
lot 94.

PUBLISHED:

S. Little, “Images of the Buddha from
the Michael Phillips Collection,” Arts of
Asia, Jan-Feb 2013, p.111, fg.28
For another tenth-century example with
the deity seated atop a high throne with
pierced base, see a fgure of Vajrasattva
in the Rijks Museum, Amsterdam,
illustrated below.

A Silver and Bronze Figure of Vajrasattva,
10th/11th century, East Java
Rijks Museum, Amsterdam (inv. no. 1970-2)
J. Fontein, The Sculpture of Indonesia,
Washington, 1990, p.222

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