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THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN FAMILY
歐洲家族藏品
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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GAUTAMA
BUDDHA
18th century
Cast with a serene facial expression under an
elaborate five-leaf headdress, the deity dressed
in a long robe pleated with undulating folds, the
right hand raised in abhaya mudra and the other in
varada mudra, standing barefoot on a single-lotus
pesdestal.
19.8cm (7 7/8in) high (2).

£15,000 - 20,000
CNY130,000 - 180,000

十八世紀 銅鎏金佛陀立像

Provenance: Sotheby’s Olympia, London,
11 December 2003, lot 529
A distinguished European private collection

Exhibited: Kinesiska och Skulpturer, Malmo,
March-April 1960, pl.27A.

來源：
2003年12月11日於倫敦蘇富比奧林比亞拍賣，拍
品529號
顯貴歐洲私人收藏

展覽：
1960年3至4月出展於瑞典馬爾摩Kinesiska och
Skulpturer展覽，展品編號27A

A similar gilt-bronze figure of Buddha Dipankara,
18th century, in the Guimet Museum, Paris, is
illustrated by U.von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan
Bronzes, Hong Kong, 2008, pp.552-553, pl.158F;
see also another similar example, Qing dynasty,
illustrated in Ibid., pp.556-557, pl.160C.

A related gilt-bronze figure of Buddha, similarly
wearing a diaphanous robe of the ‘Udayana type’,
Qianlong, was sold in our New York Rooms, 18
November 2013, lot 28.

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