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A GILT BRONZE AND REPOUSSE FIGURE
OF A STANDING BODHISATTVA

SINO-TIBET OR MONGOLIA,
18TH/19TH CENTURY
13º in. (34.8 cm.) high
$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE

Raoul Blondeau Collection, 1910-1939.
Acquired by the current owner from a public sale,
California, 13 March 2016.

PUBLISHED

Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org), item
no.24296
漢藏或蒙古 十八/十九世紀 鎏金銅和局部銅皮
菩薩立像
This large, elegant fgure of a standing Bodhisattva
exhibits many characteristics common to the
Buddhist workshops of the Qianlong period, such
as the use of both cast and repoussé elements,
elongated arms and a languidly modeled body. The
Qing court patronage of Buddhism under the Kangxi
Emperor reached its apex under his grandson, the
Qianlong Emperor, during which time the Buddhist
centers of Beijing, Rehol, and Dolonnor, possibly the
origin of the present work, produced a vast corpus
of sculpture to inhabit the numerous temples in
and outside of the capital. Compare the bodily
proportions, the repoussé details and the treatment
of the lotus base of the present work with a Qianlong
period fgure of Maitreya sold at Christie’s New York
on 17-18 March 2016 for $60,000 (lot 1424).

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