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

Lot 614

A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF KSITIGARBHA , QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
Estimate: 60,000 - 80,000 USD

A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF KSITIGARBHA
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
清乾隆 銅鎏金嵌寶地藏菩薩坐像

the bodhisattva of the underworld cast seated in vajraparyankasana with the right hand in vitarkamudra, crowned with a pointed
diadem containing the five Tathagata Buddhas with two trailing sashes falling down the shoulders, the serene rounded face with
downcast eyes, the hair applied with blue pigment, draped in luxuriant robes falling in crisp folds around the body and tied at
waist, the pendulous earlobes and bare chest adorned with elaborate jewelry suspending coral and turquoise inlay, all raised on
a double-lotus base, mounted to a wood stand

Height 10⅝ in., 27 cm

Provenance
Frank Crane, The Hundred Antiques, Toronto.
Canadian Private Collection, acquired in the mid-1960s, and thence by descent.

來源
Frank Crane，The Hundred Antiques，多倫多
加拿大私人收藏，購於1960年代中葉，此後家族傳承

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