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A COPPER-ALLOY FIGURE OF
AMITAYUS
18th century
The deity finely cast seated in meditation
pose over a triangular plinth with his hands
gathered upwards in his lap, his face
downcast in a serene expression and with
traces of gilt beneath the hair piled up in a
high chignon and bedecked in finely-beaded
jewellery.
13.5cm (5 3/8in) high
£3,000 - 5,000
HK$32,000 - 54,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000
Provenance
Spink & Son Ltd. 7th August 1958 (facsimile
of receipt).

For a very similar figure, considered an 18th
century revival of the 11th century Newar
style of casting, see our New York saleroom,
Indian, Himalayan and South-East Asian
Art, 14 March 2016, lot 46. Another Qing
Nepalese revival figure was sold at Bonhams,
New York, 16 March 2015, lot 19.

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A GILT-BRONZE COPPER ALLOY
FIGURE OF A LAMA
Tibet, possibly 18th century
Heavily cast, the figure seated in padmasana
over cushions and clad in a peaked layered
headdress, probably that of the Karma-pas,
and thickly-folded robes, his right hand held
before his torso in vitarka mudra, the other
open in his lap, the cushions and hems of
the robes finely incised with brocaded motifs.
22cm (8 5/8in) high

£4,000 - 6,000
HK$43,000 - 64,000
CNY36,000 - 54,000

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