Chinese Sino-Tibetan Gilt Bronze Buddha

CIRCA 20TH CENTURY A.D.

17 3/4 in. (6.85 kg, 45 cm high).

Hollow-formed and sitting cross-legged on a lotus-flower dais with left hand resting palm-upward in the lap to accept a bumpa vessel.

Provenance

French collection, 1960s-early 2000s.
From an important Paris gallery, France.
with Ogotai (?) Auctions, Paris, France, 22 January 2016, lot 5.

This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11712-199349.

Literature

Cf. similar in the collection of the Asian Art Museum under accession number 1994.131.

CONDITION

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