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A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF CROWNED BUDDHA This image can be interpreted to represent both Akshobhya,
TIBET, CIRCA 16TH CENTURY assuming it was part of a set of Five Presiding Buddhas, and Crowned
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61633 Shakyamuni, assuming it was the central element of its ensemble.
20.5 cm (8 in.) high While Shakyamuni’s renunciation of his royal birth is in opposition
to him being represented with a crown, Bautze-Picron has outlined
HK$160,000 - 240,000 the coalescence of Indian political, devotional, and philosophical
developments that resulted in Shakyamuni’s spiritual authority being
emphasised with regalia by the end of the first millenium CE (Bautze-
西藏 約十六世纪 銅鎏金寶冠佛像 Picron, The Bejewlled Buddha from India to Burma, New Delhi, 2010.)
A similar example sold at Christie’s, Amsterdam, 21 November 2001,
lot 130 shows comparable treatment of the robe, crown, and side
ribbons.
Provenance
Joseph Gelpy, London, 1970s
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