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A FINE GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA SAKYAMUNI
17th Century
Seated in vajrasana with the hands held in dhyanamudra, with wide
shoulders and relatively small but naturalistically modelled head with
a soft benevolent expression, with high arching brows above heavy-
lidded eyes and long triangular nose above a small but full fleshy
mouth, his hair tightly knotted and rising to a small domed usnisa,
large pendulous ears frame the head, his robes draped over one
shoulder, the other exposed, the hems delicately cast and incised with
scrolling lotus, a pleated inner garment decorated with three round
jewels in the Chintamani pattern, which also falls in folds between his
legs, his fifth large toe on each up-turned foot slightly splayed from the
other grouped toes, seated on a double lotus base cast with cloud
motifs in the early Ming dynasty style beneath a beaded edge, all
under a thick gilding, no base panel.
6 1/2in (16.5cm) high
$10,000 - 15,000

十七世紀 鎏金銅佛坐像

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