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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTION
SOLD TO BENEFIT MENTAL HEALTH CHARITIES IN ASIA
亞洲私人珍藏 — 有關收益將捐贈予亞洲精神健康慈善機構

2703
A VERY RARE AND SUPERB GILT-BRONZE
FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI
INCISED XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER PRESENTATION MARK IN A
LINE AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)
The figure is seated in dhyanasana on a double-lotus base,
with his right hand in bhumisparsamudra, his left hand
in dhyanamudra, wearing a softly pleated robe draped over
the left shoulder and falling in rounded folds on the base, the
serene face is framed by long pendulous ears with vertical
slits and hair arranged in rows of tight whorls surmounted by
a domed usnisa, incised with a six-character mark, Da Ming
Xuande nian shi, ‘Bestowed in the Great Ming Xuande Period’
on the top of the base.
10 ⅝ in. (27 cm. high), box

HK$4,000,000-6,000,000 US$520,000-780,000
PROVENANCE
A New York private collection
Sold at Sotheby’s New York, 17 September 2003, lot 22

明宣德 鎏金銅釋迦牟尼佛坐像
「大明宣德年施」刻款

來源
紐約私人珍藏
紐約蘇富比，2003 年 9 月 17 日，拍品 22 號

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