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108 Y
A RARE AND LARGE SILVER-INLAID BRONZE
FIGURE OF SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA
Inlaid He Chaozong seal mark, Qing Dynasty
The finely-cast deity seated cross-legged in
dhyanasana, with a dhoti falling over the legs, the
hands resting in dhyana mudra, wearing loose
robes well decorated along the hem with scrolling
lotus flowers, draped around the shoulders and
open to reveal the bare chest and an inner garment
tied at the waist, the eyes slightly downcast with a
serene expression flanked by elongated earlobes
beneath tight snail shell curls around the protuberant
ushnisha, wood stand.
35.5cm (14in) high (2).
£10,000 - 15,000
CNY86,000 - 130,000
清 銅嵌銀佛陀坐像
葫蘆「何朝宗」篆書款
Provenance: a distinguished French private
collection, and thence by descent; according to the
owner acquired in China in the 1950s
來源： 顯貴私人收藏， 據傳於1950年代購自中
國； 並由後人保存迄今
Compare with a related silver-inlaid bronze seated
figure of Shakyamuni Buddha, Shisou mark,
16th/17th century, illustrated in Sydney L. Moss
Ltd., Emperor, Scholar, Artisan, Monk: The Creative
Personality in Chinese Works of Art, London, 1984,
pp.278-279.

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