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FURTHER COMPARISONS FOR LOT 148

Literature comparison:
For a sculpture in similar style
in the collection of the Tokyo
National Museum, see Sato Toshio, ed.,
Kamakura jidai no chokoku (Japanese
sculpture of the Kamakura period)
(Tokyo: Tokyo National Museum,
1976), pl. 61.

Jizo Bosatsu by Unkei,
Rokuharamitsu-ji, Kamakura period

Auction results:
Compare with a closely related, but 14th century statue of Jizo
Bosatsu at Christies London, in Japanese Art & Design Including
Arts of The Samurai, 9th
November 2011, sold
for GBP 229,250.00
(circa EUR 263,350.00).
Also compare with a statue
of Nyoirin Kannon, height
37 cm, at Christies New
York, in The Sublime and
the Beautiful: Asian
Masterpieces of Devotion,
20th March 2014, sold
for USD 341,000.00
(circa EUR 289,850.00).

A 14th century statue
of Jizo Bosatsu at
Christies London, A polychrome and gilded wood figure of Nyoirin Kannon,
sold for c. EUR Kamakura, dated 1304, total height 36.9 cm,
263,350.00 sold for c. EUR 289,850.00

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