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BODHISATTVA KOKUZO
JAPON, ÉPOQUE KAMAKURA

encre, couleurs, or et feuilles d’or sur soie, montée en rouleau,
boîte couverte en bois (3)
60 x 50,2 cm, 23⅝ by 19¾ in.
PROVENANCE
Acquired by Willem van Heusden in Japan before 1955
(according to his wife).
‘This painting shows the Kokuzo Bodhisattva seated on a
lotus ß ower in a pose which was already traditional for this
bodhisattva during the Nara period. It is impossible to date this
painting more accurately than we have done above, latest end
of the twelfth century but possibly earlier.’
Quote Willem van Heusden in his notes accompanying the
painting.
Kokuzo Bodhisattva
ink, colour, gold and cut gold leaf on silk, hanging scroll,
Japan, Kamakura period
25 000-30 000 €
238 000-286 000 HK$ 30 400-36 400 US$

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