GILT BRONZE STANDING FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI
POSSIBLY NEPAL
£25,000
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 14 May 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
尼泊爾 銅鎏金釋迦摩尼佛立像
of generous proportions, impressively cast standing in slight tribhanga, right hand lowered in varadamudra, right gently holding the folds of his robes, wears a long dhoti beneath a slightly shorter sanghati with their hem incised, the face exquisitely modelled in serene expression, flanked by a pair of elongated and pierced earlobes, his head with spiral hair tufts rising to an ushnisha, mounted on a wooden stand
Dimensions
58.5cm high; 68.5cm high with wooden stand
Footnote
Provenance: Private London collection
Note: a very similar example, dated early Malla period 13th century and originated from Nepal, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong on 2 December 2015; another comparable Nepalese example, dated to probably 8th - 10th century, is in the collection of the Harvard Art Museum, object number 2011.2