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LOT 2209
Sino-Tibetan Gilt Bronze Buddha Figure
19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D.
8 5/8 in. (1.5 kg, 22 cm high).
Hollow-formed and sitting cross-legged on a lotus-flower dais, cradling a vessel in his left hand and touching the earth with his right hand in the Bhumisparsha mudra at the instant of his enlightenment.
Provenance
Acquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
Literature
See Lutz, A. et al., The Return of the Buddha. The Qingzhou Discoveries, London, 2002, for discussion.
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