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PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

A BRONZE FIGURE OF MAITREYA
EARLY MING DYNASTY

with hands in dharmachakra mudra holding the stems of naga-
puspa owers supporting a kundika and a text, the hair drawn
up in a knotted jatamakuta encircled with a pointed diadem
over the knotted tresses falling about the shoulders, wearing
elaborate jewelry, owing sashes and a voluminous dhoti
gathered at the waist and fastened by a beaded girdle, seated
in vajraparyankasana on a double-lotus base
Height 10 in., 25.4 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Major Oswald Stanhope Benbow-Rowe (1890-
1940), and thence by descent.

LITERATURE
The Buddhist Arts of Asia, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria,
Victoria, 2001, p. 33.

$ 4,000-6,000

Oswald Stanhope Benbow Rowe 1890 1940

The Buddhist Arts of Asia Art Gallery of Greater 122
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Victoria 2001

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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DR. HEINRICH MEDICUS

A BRONZE FIGURE OF BHAISAJYAGURU
MING DYNASTY, 15TH / 16TH CENTURY

seated in dhyanasana with the right hand in dhyana mudra
and the left hand holding a myrobalan fruit, wearing foliate
patchwork monk’s robes open at the chest revealing a sash-
tied dhoti, supported by a triple-tiered lotus base
Height 11 in., 28 cm

PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 20th March 2001, lot 63.

Bronze gures of Amitabha with related, patterned monk’s
robes, attributed to the Ming dynasty, were sold in these
rooms, 17th September 2014, lot 433; 17th September lot 67;
and another in our Hong Kong rooms, 17th November 1988,
lot 231.

$ 10,000-15,000

2001 3 20 63

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