CARVED WOOD FIGURE OF PADMAPANI LOKESHVARA WITHIN A GROTTO
QING DYNASTY
£5,544
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 3 November 2023 from 09:00 GMT
Description
清 木雕蓮華手菩薩立像龕
finely worked with the Bodhisattva standing in slight tribhanga on a flayed animal skin, right hand lowered in varada mudra, and holding a lotus flower in his raised left that extends up to his shoulder, wearing a short dhoti secured with a sash tied at the waist that suspends folded ribbons extending to the calves, crowned by a large headpiece over a gilded serene face, the figure enclosed within a grotto raised on tiered flower-petal-form clouds, sides of the grotto carved in round with layered rocks, lower right with a kneeling disciple, the flattened back similarly carved in relief further with clouds, the base with a half-moon plaque incised with a double-vajra
Dimensions
37cm high
Provenance
Provenance: Formerly in a private European collection
Footnote
Note: This unusual carved wooden shrine echoes with a Longquan celadon-glazed shrine, dated to the auspicious day of the Chu Festival (Dragon Boat Festival) in the Bingxu year of the Yongle reign, 1406AD, in the collection of the British Museum, museum no. 1929,0114.1.