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LOT 2313
Sino-Tibetan Gilt Bronze Bodhisattva Statue
20TH CENTURY A.D.
10 1/4 in. (1.95 kg, 26.3 cm).
Figure seated cross-legged on a lotus-leaf dais, with radiating leaf-shaped panels to the headdress, loosely draped uttariya, white enamel urnato the brow.
ProvenanceFrom a West Country, UK, collection, 1990s.
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