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LOT 2264
Tibetan Bronze Seated Buddha
LATE 20TH CENTURY A.D.
4 in. (205 grams, 10.2 cm).
Seated cross-legged in virasana pose on a lotus flower dais, hands in the Dharmachakra Mudra, the tiered hair surmounted by a flame and with an elaborate diadem; bloom on the left arm curled around the forearm. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection, UK.
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Large Chinese Yellow Glazed Brush Box with Dragons
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Opening Bid: £100
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Chinese Bitong Brush Washing Vessel
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Chinese Green-Glazed Waterdroppers
Yue kilns, probably Western Jin Dynasty, 265-317 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Comprising: a stoneware water dropper in the form of a toad, legs with incised decoration applied to the globular body, the opening flanked by two loop handles, the bottom unglazed; the second one in the exceptional and rare form of a monkey, aperture for filling on the top and nicely crackled green glaze, unglazed bottom. 742 grams total, 10-14 cm
From the private collection of a Canadian gentleman living in Essex, UK, formed since the 1920s-circa 1990. Property of an Essex lady until the late 1990s; thence by descent. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman since the late 1990s. Asian Art collection of a German Professor.
