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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF AKSHOBYA BUDDHA
18th century
Cast seated in dhyanasana on a lotus base, the right hand extended
in bhumisparshamudra and the left in dhyanamudra, wearing a shawl
and an undergarment gathered below the bare chest, the face in a
meditative expression with downcast eyes, the hair gathered in tight
curls below a domed ushnisha, the base unsealed.
17cm (6 6/8in) high.

£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000

十八世紀 銅鎏金阿閦如來坐像

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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF ELEVEN-HEADED
AVALOKITESHVARA
18th century
Finely cast standing with eight arms and eleven heads arranged in five
tiers surmounted by one head with a wrathful expression topped by a
small head of Amitabha Buddha, the principal hands held in anjalimudra,
the others fanned out in various mudras and holding various attributes,
the body adorned with elaborate jewellery and fluttering scarves, with a
deer skin slung across one shoulder, stand attached.
29cm (11 3/8in) high.
£12,000 - 15,000
CNY110,000 - 130,000

十八世紀 銅鎏金十一面觀音菩薩立像

A similar gilt-bronze figure of an eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara,
18th century, is illustrated by U.von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes,
Hong Kong, 2008, pp.552-553, pl.158C. Another gilt-bronze figure of
an eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara, 17th/18th century, is illustrated in
Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993, p.106, no.46. Two similar
gilt-bronze figures of eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara, 18th century,
were sold at Bonhams London, on 15 May 2014, lot 394 and
10 November 2016, lot 112.

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