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LOT 1518
Sino-Tibetan Gilt Buddha Figure
19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D.
8 5/8 in. (1.5 kg, 22 cm high).
A hollow-formed gilt-bronze figure of Buddha 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.
ProvenanceAcquired 1980-2015.
Ex Abelita family collection.
See Lutz, A. et al, The Return of the Buddha. The Qingzhou Discoveries, London, 2002, for discussion.
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LOT 1518
Sino-Tibetan Gilt Buddha Figure
Estimate £400 - 600€460 - 700 (for guidance only)$540 - 810 (for guidance only)
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