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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 590

A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED BODHISATTVA , TANG DYNASTY
Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 USD

A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED BODHISATTVA
TANG DYNASTY
唐 銅鎏金菩薩坐像

beautifully cast, posed in lalitasana with the body adorned in tiers of torques, ornamental bands, and a long, sweeping body chain,
the fleshy torso with a defined waist above a low-slung dhoti draped in cascading folds about the legs and over the lotus seat, a
smaller blossom supporting the pendent foot, all raised on a cylindrical standard issuing scrolling arabesque branches and further
lotus pods, mounted on a modern stand, Japanese wood box (4)

Height 5⅝ in., 14.3 cm

Provenance
Sotheby's New York, 24th March 1998, lot 530.

來源
紐約蘇富比1998年3月24日，編號530

Catalogue Note
Compare a similar gilt-bronze figure of a bodhisattva, also seated with the hands in similar positions and with similar treatment of
the garments and drapery, raised on a related stand, illustrated in Arts of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Osaka Municipal Museum of
Fine Art, Osaka, 1977, cat. no. 3-67.

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