The Collection of Paul Otto Taubert & Jewellery and Decorative Arts

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A GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF ME TOG BZANG PO, CHINESE, MID TO LATE 18th CENTURY

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6,000 - 8,000 AUD
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Description

  • A GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF ME TOG BZANG PO, CHINESE, MID TO LATE 18th CENTURY
  • 31cm high
wearing a dhoti and seated in dhyanasana, his hands is bhusmiparsha mudra on a double lotus base
Qianlong Mark, Sanskrit mark


Catalogue Note

Me Tog Bzang Po translates as 'The Beneficent Flower'
This image is inscribed along the base, bilingually in Chinese and Tibetan.  The image is of Sakyamuni Buddha in one of the forms he appears in when grouped as the thirty-five Buddhas of confession.  This image probably belonged to such a group.