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                                                                       See a similar figure from the Avery Brundage collection,
                             PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
                                                                       of larger form and depicted with the left hand held in
                             A SANCAI TILEWORK FIGURE OF A BUDDHA      dhyanamudra and the right in varadamudra, now in the Asian
                             MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY                Art Museum of San Francisco, no. B60P139+.
                             depicted seated in dhyanasana with hands in abhisekamudra   Compare also a fahua figure of Buddha, sold in our London
                             upon a lotus throne supported on a hexagonal plinth set with   rooms, 12th July 2006, lot 111.
                             four small Atlantean figures, all picked out in green, yellow
                             and aubergine glaze with face serene beneath the brown-
                             dressed hair
                             45.3 cm, 17⅞ in.
                             PROVENANCE
                             Sotheby’s London, 17th November 1999, lot 866.
                             HK$ 120,000-150,000
                             US$ 15,300-19,200

                             明十六世紀   三彩佛像
                             來源:
                             倫敦蘇富比1999年11月17日,編號866
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