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A SMALL BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA The inscription in putonghua reading: 毘婆尸佛, Pi po shi fu, Vipassī
Tibet, 16th/17th century Buddha.
Seated in padmasana on a tall, double lotus base, the Buddha
wearing a clinging dhoti with brocaded hems, thickly folding at the In Buddhist tradition, Vipassī is the twenty-second of twenty-
shoulder and between his legs, his hair worn in little tufts, touching eight Buddhas described in Chapter 27 of the Buddhavamsa. The
the ground in bhumisparsamudra with the left hand, the right in his Buddhavamsa is a Buddhist text which describes the life of Gautama
palm in the gesture of meditation. Buddha and the twenty-seven Buddhas who preceded him. It is the
10cm (4in) high fourteenth book of the Khuddaka Nikāya, which in turn is part of the
Sutta Piṭaka, one of three sections which together constitute the
£2,000 - 3,000 Tripiṭaka, or Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism.
HK$20,000 - 31,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000 198
A PAIR OF PAINTED MANUSCRIPT COVERS
197 Nepal, probably 14th/15th century
A SMALL GILT-COPPER BUDDHIST VOTIVE PLAQUE OF The first painted with a seated figure of Amitabha flanked by
VIPASSI BUDDHA emanations of Avalokiteshvara, the second with a central four-armed
Qianlong six-character mark and probably of the period female deity flanked by two kneeling figures, each on a lotus throne,
The flat plaque cast in relief with a seated Buddha figure placed stands.
within a mandorla and atop a lotus throne, the reverse with an 23cm (9in) x 7cm (2 3/4in) (4).
inscription in Chinese, Manchu and Tibetan.
8.5cm (3 1/4in) high £1,000 - 2,000
HK$10,000 - 20,000
£1,500 - 2,000 CNY9,000 - 18,000
HK$15,000 - 20,000
CNY13,000 - 18,000

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