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LOT 2059
Sino-Tibetan Gilt Bronze Kubera Statue
20TH CENTURY A.D.
12 1/2 in. (4.15 kg, 32 cm).
Seated cross-legged in virasana on a lotus flower dais, right hand holding a conch and the left resting a mongoose, wearing a samghati adorned with floral motifs, his face with a meditative expression and with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, aquiline nose, with curled ringlets forming the beard, elongated earlobes, tiered crown and diadem surmounted by a flame, with amethyst studs.
ProvenanceLondon, UK, art market, 1990-2000.
Ex London, UK, collection of Oriental art.
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LOT 2059
Sino-Tibetan Gilt Bronze Kubera Statue
Estimate £500 - 700€580 - 810 (for guidance only)$680 - 950 (for guidance only)
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