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LOT 2016
Tang Style Gilt Bronze Figure
20TH CENTURY A.D.
13 3/4 in. (1 kg, 35 cm high).
Hollow-formed gilt lotus-shaped dais with repoussé panels depicting musicians, bodhisattvas and other figures; topped by a squatting figure modelled in the round with offering-plate formed as a leaf. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Cotswold, UK, collection, 1970-1990.
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