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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, LOS ALTOS,
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A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF A LAMA
18th/19th century
Heavily cast and displaying traces of pigments to face, hair, and attire, A lama of similar size, postures, and stylistic details to attire and plinth,
seated dhyanasana in elaborate Gelug attire including the typical but of more idiosyncratically rotund proportions was offered as lot
pandit’s pointed hat here with ear flaps curling carefully behind him to 136 in our Hong Kong rooms on 29th November 2016 as part of our
cross between the shoulder blades, holding his right hand in vitarka Images of Devotion sale. It was suggested that figure likely represented
mudra while his left lies in his lap, nearly all surfaces elaborately incised a Dalai Lama.
in repeating floral and geometric patterns, the base plate centered by a
carefully incised visvavajra.
13 3/4in (35cm) high
$15,000 - 25,000
70 | BONHAMS
