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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED NEW YORK COLLECTION
1124
A RARE PAINTED WOOD FIGURE OF A STANDING
BODHISATTVA
JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)
42 in. (106.7 cm.) high, softwood stand

$100,000-150,000
PROVENANCE:
Jen Chai Art Gallery Inc. (J. T. Tai & Co.), New York, 24 March 1965.
Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987) Collections.
Else Sackler (1913-2000).
Elizabeth A. Sackler.

A similar polychrome wood standing figure of a bodhisattva of
larger size (190.5 cm. high), dated to 1195 of the Jin dynasty, is
in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, illustrated in in
Hai-Wai Yi-Chen, Chinese Art in Overseas Collections: Buddhist
Sculpture II, Taipei, 1990, p. 171, no. 161. The pose and the drapery
of the two figures are extremely similar. A seated figure of a wood
bodhisattva, also dated to the Jin dynasty, shown wearing similar
necklaces, in the Liang-sheng T’ang Collection, is illustrated
in The Art of Contemplation-Religious Sculpture from Private
Collections, The National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1997, p. 208-09,
no. 93 and p. 259.

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