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A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF AMITAYUS A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF HIERARCH
Tibet or China, 14th century Tibet, 14th/15th century
Seated above an elegant lotus base, the elixir of immortality resting in Seated on a vajrasana with fine lotus petals executed in the round,
his hands, his robust torso wrapped in a close-fitting robe with crisply blissfully in bhumisparsha mudra, wearing an intricate patchwork robe.
defined hems. 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm) high
5 3/8 in. (13.5 cm) high $7,000 - 10,000
$8,000 - 12,000
西藏 十四／十五世紀 銅鎏金上師像
西藏或中國 十四世紀 銅鎏金無量壽佛坐像
Compare to two lamas from the same period published in Rossi,
The base, with its layered and rounded petals, relates to a corpus of Homage to the Holy: Portraits of Tibet’s Spiritual Teachers, London,
material recently attributed to Yuan dynasty production in China within the 2003, nos.17 & 27, and a portrait of Rinchenpel in Oliver Hoare
14th century. A bronze of Manjushri bearing a dedicatory inscription from Collection (Portraits of the Masters, London, 2003, p. 192, pl. 46).
the ninth year of the Dade reign (1305) forms the basis of this comparison
and association. For further discussion and several examples, see Bigler, Referenced
Before Yongle, New York, 2015, pp. 10-11, fig. 3, nos. 1, 2, 7, 17, 19; HAR - himalayanart.org/items/33029
and Sotheby’s, New York, 17 March 2015, lot 1025.
Provenance
Referenced Sotheby’s, London, 10/11 October 1991, lot 509 (part)
HAR - himalayanart.org/items/33024 Guest & Gray, London
The Collection of Ms. Kataneh Haydarzadeh, California since 2002
Provenance
Private Collection, Washington, acquired by 1955

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