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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
1610
A VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT GILDED GREY STONE
FIGURE OF BUDDHA
NORTHERN QI DYNASTY (AD 550-577)
The slender, elegant fgure is shown standing on top of a socle with
right hand raised in abhayamudra, in the attitude of ‘do not fear’,
and the left hand held in varadamudra, the gesture of gift-giving.
He wears a simplifed sanghati bearing traces of patchwork pattern
that falls to above his feet and clings to the contours of his body.
The face is carved with a serene expression, and the hair and
rounded ushnisha are painted black while the remainder of the
fgure is covered in gold leaf, with traces of red pigment on the
mouth and black pigment on the eyes and brows.
27æ in. (70.5 cm.) high, stand

$1,200,000-1,800,000

PROVENANCE
Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1978.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collection.
Important Chinese Works of Art from the Arthur M. Sackler
Collection, Christie’s New York, 1 December 1994, lot 166.
Property from a Private New York Collector; Christie’s New York,
w18 September 2003, lot 181.

EXHIBITED
London, Eskenazi Ltd., Ancient Chinese sculpture,
14 June - 22 July 1978.
LITERATURE
Eskenazi Ltd., Ancient Chinese sculpture, London, 1978, no. 19.
北齊 貼金石灰岩佛立像

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