Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
Auction Closed
September 23, 08:35 PM GMT
Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF KSITIGARBHA
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
清乾隆 銅鎏金嵌寶地藏菩薩坐像
the bodhisattva of the underworld cast seated in vajraparyankasana with the right hand in vitarkamudra, crowned with a pointed diadem containing the five Tathagata Buddhas with two trailing sashes falling down the shoulders, the serene rounded face with downcast eyes, the hair applied with blue pigment, draped in luxuriant robes falling in crisp folds around the body and tied at waist, the pendulous earlobes and bare chest adorned with elaborate jewelry suspending coral and turquoise inlay, all raised on a double-lotus base, mounted to a wood stand
Height 10⅝ in., 27 cm
Frank Crane, The Hundred Antiques, Toronto.
Canadian Private Collection, acquired in the mid-1960s, and thence by descent.
來源
Frank Crane,The Hundred Antiques,多倫多
加拿大私人收藏,購於1960年代中葉,此後家族傳承