Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE PRIVATE COLLECTION
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED BODHISATTVA, TANG DYNASTY
Auction Closed
September 23, 08:35 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED BODHISATTVA
TANG DYNASTY
唐 銅鎏金菩薩坐像
beautifully cast, posed in lalitasana with the body adorned in tiers of torques, ornamental bands, and a long, sweeping body chain, the fleshy torso with a defined waist above a low-slung dhoti draped in cascading folds about the legs and over the lotus seat, a smaller blossom supporting the pendent foot, all raised on a cylindrical standard issuing scrolling arabesque branches and further lotus pods, mounted on a modern stand, Japanese wood box (4)
Height 5⅝ in., 14.3 cm
Sotheby's New York, 24th March 1998, lot 530.
來源
紐約蘇富比1998年3月24日，編號530
Compare a similar gilt-bronze figure of a bodhisattva, also seated with the hands in similar positions and with similar treatment of the garments and drapery, raised on a related stand, illustrated in Arts of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Osaka Municipal Museum of Fine Art, Osaka, 1977, cat. no. 3-67.