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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SEATED BUDDHA
LIAO DYNASTY (AD 907-1125)
The Buddha is shown seated in dhyanasana on an elevated lotus base, with
his right hand held in abhayamudra and left hand in varadamudra, wearing a
simple loose robe open at the front to reveal his chest.
4æ in. (12 cm.) high, cloth box
$40,000-60,000
PROVENANCE:
Galaxie Art (B. K. Wong), Hong Kong, 25 November 1990.
Two small Liao dynasty gilt-bronze figures stylistically similar to the present
figure are illustrated by M. L. Gridley, Chinese Buddhist Sculpture Under the
Liao, New Dehli, India, 1993, p. 95, fig. 136 (bronze Buddha in the Ku-kung
Historical Survey, Beijing) and p. 109, fig. 152 (a bodhisattva in the Shanghai
Museum). See, also, another similar gilt-bronze figure of Buddha sold at
Christie’s New York, 17 September 2008, lot 392.
私人珍藏
遼 銅鎏金佛坐像
來源:
Galaxie Art (王炳權), 香港, 1990年11月25日
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