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A RARE BRONZE SEATED FIGURE
OF BUDDHA
FIVE DYNASTIES-NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY
(AD 907-1126), 10TH CENTURY
Buddha is shown seated in dhyanasana on a fat disk, with right hand raised
in abhayamudra and left resting on the left knee, he wears loosely draped
layered robes, and is backed by a shaped, openwork, fame-form aureole
decorated at the bottom with scrolling leaves below the nimbus which is
flled with a lotus blossom borne on a coiled leafy stem. Three small
semi-circular tabs project from the bottom of the disk in the front and
a small rectangular tang at the back.
6¬ in. (16.8 cm.) high
$15,000-18,000
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Japan, acquired prior to 1930.
LITERATURE
Saburo Matsubara, Chogoku Bukkyo Chokokushi Kenkyu (History of
Chinese Buddhist Sculpture), Tokyo, 1961, pl. 182 (b).
五代/北宋 銅佛坐像
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