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A BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA

MONGOLIA, ZANABAZAR SCHOOL, 17TH CENTURY
8Ω in. (21.5 cm.) high
$100,000-150,000

PROVENANCE

Private Collection, Connecticut.
Acquired by the current owner from a public sale, Connecticut,
12 October 2016.

PUBLISHED

Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org), item no. 24309
蒙古 扎納巴扎爾派 十七世紀 銅菩薩像
The Zanabazar school of art was founded by Jebtsundamba Khutuktu
Zanabazar (1635-1723), a direct descendent of Genghis Khan and one
of the most beloved religious leaders and respected master artists of
Mongolia. The school is characterized by richly gilded imagery with
fnely modeled, smoothly sloping contours and precise, often beaded
embellishments, as displayed in the present work. The scholar and
conservator Giles Beguin writes; “Zanabazar possessed an in-depth
knowledge of the techniques of casting, decorating and gilding, and
all his newly founded communities were equipped with a complete
set of gilt-metal sculptures, sometimes of rather large size” (A. & F.
Rossi, Treasures from Mongolia: Buddhist Sculpture from the school of
Zanabazar, London, 2005). Compare with another Zanabazar bronze
which sold at Christie’s New York on 15 March 2016 for $161,000
(lot 243).

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