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           PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF HEINRICH   PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE TEXAS COLLECTION  PROVENANCE
           MEDICUS
                                            A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE              Acquired from the Wilkins Kendall Family Estate,
           A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF    DEPICTING AMITABHA                sold by Vogt Enterprises, San Antonio, Texas, 1st
           BUDDHA                           Tibet, circa 15th Century         January 2017.
           Tibet, circa 14th Century
                                            Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13472.  The sale included property from the estate of the
           Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13471.  Height: 8 ⅝ in. (22 cm)   Texas oil baron Cli* ord Mooers (1891-1956), also
           Height: 8 ⅝ in. (22 cm)                                            of the Wilkins Kendall family, in whose personal
                                                                              possessions this sculpture was found.
           PROVENANCE
           Sotheby’s New York, March 24, 2004, lot 79.                        $ 25,000-35,000

           $ 6,000-8,000

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