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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA
Ming Dynasty
The benevolent figure finely cast, the face in a meditative expression
with downcast eyes flanked by pendulous earlobes, crowned by tightly
curled hair rising to a high chignon, seated cross-legged with both
hands held in dhyana mudra, wearing a long layered robe decorated
on the hems with delicate foliate scrolls, open at the chest revealing a
wan emblem.
23.3cm (9in) high

HK$200,000 - 300,000
US$25,000 - 38,000

明 銅鎏金釋迦牟尼佛坐像

Compare a related example of a gilt-bronze figure of Medicine Buddha,
late Ming dynasty, which was sold at Sotheby’s London, 8 November
2017, lot 76. See also a slightly larger gilt-bronze figure of a seated
Shakyamuni Buddha, Ming dynasty, which was sold at Sotheby’s
Hong Kong, 8 April 2014, lot 3060.

參看倫敦蘇富比曾售出一件明晚期銅鎏金藥師佛，2017年11月8
日，拍品76。另見一件尺寸稍大之明代釋迦牟尼佛，售於香港蘇富
比，2014年4月8日，拍品3060。

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