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A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF MANJUSHRI patina exhibiting the hallmarks of a much cherished and propitiated
NORTHEASTERN INDIA, PALA PERIOD, 11TH CENTURY personal icon under the devotee’s thumb. Compare a Pala bronze
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61903 Avalokiteshvara of the same scale, alloy, and stylistic type sold recently
3 in. (7.6 cm) high at Christie’s, New York, 21 March 2018, lot 301 and formerly in the
J.R. Belmont and Pan-Asian collections.
$10,000 - 15,000
Provenance
印度東北部 帕拉時期 十一世紀 文殊菩薩銅像 Private Californian Collection, before 1980
Flailing sashes add vigor and compositional balance to this svelte
figure of Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Perfected Wisdom. Manjushri
holds the Wisdom Sword aloft and the Prajnaparamita Sutra before
his chest. Manjushri’s broad smile lingers beneath the bronze’s buttery
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