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A GILT-LACQUER BRONZE FIGURE OF A GILT-LACQUER BRONZE FIGURE OF
SAMANTABHADRA AMITABHA
MING DYNASTY, 15TH / 16TH CENTURY MING DYNASTY, 16TH / 17TH CENTURY
seated in lalitasana on a recumbent elephant, the bodhisattva the gure standing holding an alms bowl in the right hand,
wearing a seven-pointed crown and elaborate jewelry with the long, pendent left arm extending the varada mudra, a wan
a lotus-borne book and sword anking either shoulder, the symbol in relief on the bare chest and the body draped in
hands in vitarka and varada mudra, supported on a rectangular pleated robes with oral and beaded borders over a ribbon-
base with raised lotus petals waisted dhoti, supported below by a double-lotus base further
Height 12½ in., 31.8 cm raised on a lappet-encircled base
Height 22½ in., 57.2 cm
A similar example from the collection of Judge W. E.
Cunningham was sold alongside a gure of Manjushri in these Compare two examples, the rst sold at Christie’s New York,
rooms, 28th February 1980, lot 3. Compare also a gure in 28th June 1984, lot 207; and another, sold in these rooms, 16th
the collection of Warren Cox, illustrated in Hugo Munsterberg, March 1984, lot 137.
Chinese Buddhist Bronzes, Japan, 1967, pl. 80.
$ 10,000-15,000
$ 20,000-30,000
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