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AN EXTREMELY RARE GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF A BUDDHA
ON A STAND
Silla dynasty (57 BCE-935 CE), 10th century
Cast with the hands in the ‘gift granting’ gesture (varadamudra), the
long monastic robes knotted with a ribboned tie across the torso and
cascading in rhythmic folds down the shoulders and over the legs, all
supported on a separately cast lotus pedestal stand, the figure open
to the reverse
With a Japanese fitted wood storage box
10 3/4in (27.5cm) high
US$15,000 - 20,000
For other rare seated Buddhas of the Unified Silla period, see Kuknip
Taegu Pakmulgwan / Taegu National Museum, exh. cat., (Taegu,
1996), p. 61 and Sotheby’s New York, The Arts of the Buddha Sale,
September 21, 2007, lot 16
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