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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Oct 5, 2016 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Chinese Art through the Eye of Sakamoto Gorō: Early Buddhist Bronzes | 3211 | $****** - ****** | A RARE GILT-BRONZE VOTIVE FIGURE OF AVALOKITESVARA |
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19.4 cm (7.64 in)
Collection of Sato Gengen (1888-1963).
Saburo Matsubara, Chugoku Bukkyo Chokoku Shi Kenkyu [Chinese Buddhist Sculpture - A study based on bronze and stone statues other than works from cave temples], Tokyo, 1961, pls. 74a-b.<br>Saburo Matsubara, Zoutei Chugoku Bukkyo Choukoku Shi Kenkyu [Chinese Buddhist Sculpture - A study based on bronze and stone statues other than works from cave temples], Tokyo, 1966, pls. 79a-c.<br>Saburo Matsubara, Chugoku Bukkyo Choukuku Shi Ron/History of Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, Tokyo, 1995, vol. I, pls. 167a-b.
modelled in the form of Avalokitesvara standing against a flame-shaped mandorla on a splayed lotus base resting on a four-legged plinth, clad in long flowing robes with hems flaring out to the sides, the left hand holding a kundika, depicted with a downcast countenance framed by a topknot and a circular halo on the mandorla enclosing radiating lotus petals, the mandorla further decorated with swirling flames extending from the bottom to the pointed tip, the reverse incised with nine seated Buddhas, the splayed sides and reverse of the plinth with an indistinct dedicatory inscription dated to the second year of the Shengui period (in accordance with 519)
