Name: Auction: POLYCHROMED CAST-IRON FIGURE OF MANJUSHRI MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 4750 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Asian Works of Art

Sale number: 681&nbsp; &nbsp; Our first Asian&nbsp;Works of Art auction of 2022 took place online in March. Featuring a selection of glass, ceramics, metalwares, jade, hardstone, works of art and paintings&nbsp;from across Asia. The auction was led by a Gild Bronze Figure of Milarepa, which sold for £137,500 inclusive of buyers premium. The figure, from the Qing Dynasty, featured a cast seated on a double lotus throne in&nbsp;lalitasana&nbsp;with the back of the throne engraved with Tibetan inscriptions. &nbsp;&nbsp;

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明 鑄鐵文殊菩薩騎獅座像
 
the bodhisattva cast seated in lalitasana on the back of a lion, his body elaborately jewelled and hair fashioned in a high chignon enclosed by a three-leaf crown, beaded jewellery further adorned before his low-slung dhoti, the bejewelled beast stands on all fours supported on a low plinth with its head upturned and mouth ajar, with traces of red and blue pigment, engraved with dedicatory inscriptions on the back of his body

POLYCHROMED CAST-IRON FIGURE OF MANJUSHRI

MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

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