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SOUTH & SOUTHEAST ASIAN SCULPTURE

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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE FLORIDA COLLECTION
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SEATED
BUDDHA
Sri Lanka, late Anuradhapura period, 8th/9th
Century
Height: 3 ½ in. (8.9 cm)
PROVENANCE
Acquired in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 1968.
Compare the current work with a seated Buddha found at
Mihintale, see Ulrich von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures of Sri
Lanka, Hong Kong, p. 192, pl. 48B.
$ 2,000-3,000

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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
A BRONZE FIGURE OF RAMA
Southern India, Vijayanagar period, 16th/17th
Century
Height: 9 ½ in. (24.1 cm)
PROVENANCE
Acquired privately in Switzerland, early 1970s.

$ 4,000-6,000

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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
A BRONZE FIGURE OF RAMA OR
LAKSHMANA
Southern India, Vijayanagar period, 14th/15th
Century
Height: 23 ⅔ in. (60 cm)
PROVENANCE
Acquired privately in Switzerland, 4th February 1974.
Compare the > gure’s pronounced tribhanga and posture with
the raised left hand balancing a bowstring while the lowered
right hand draws an arrow with a much earlier sculpture of
Lakshmana in R. Nagaswamy, Masterpieces of Early South
Indian Bronzes, New Delhi, 1983, > g. 165.

$ 30,000-50,000

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