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A GILT LACQUERED STONE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897), 15th century
The seated figure with the right hand at rest on the right knee and
the left hand in a mudra, the robes secured with a ribbon across the
chest and over the right shoulder, the hair piled up on the figure’s
head and surmounted by a crown, traces of polychrome lacquer and
gilt
With storage box
9 5/8in (24.5cm) high
US$6,000 - 8,000
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A IRON FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
Joseon Dynasty (1392-1897), 15th century
Cast and delicately finished, the high coiffure partially bound up by
a jeweled diadem, the hands displaying the gestures of the mudras
‘fear not’ (adhaya) and ‘gift granting’ (varada), the body adorned with
further by flowing scarves jeweled garlands
With wood storage box
7 3/4in (19.8cm) high
US$10,000 - 15,000
Similar bodhisattva figures, such as Suryaprabha Bodhisattva, were
among a group of twenty-three gilt bronze images commissioned
by Queen Inmok in 1628 and which were excavated beneath
the pagoda in the Sujongsa temple complex in Gyeonggi-do,
see Han’guk bulgyo misul (vol. 10 in the series Han’guk tojagi ui
arumdaun, (Seoul, 1979), pl. 90 and Youngsook Pak and Roderick
Whitfield, Handbook of Korean Art : Buddhist Sculpture (Seoul:
Yekyong Publishing Co., 2002), no. 102.
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