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Lot 67
A REPOUSSE BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA Qianlong period
15 March 2021, 10:00 EDT
New YorkUS$8,000 - US$10,000
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A REPOUSSE BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA
Qianlong period
The figure standing dressed in a dhoti tied at the waist, with long, loose robes draped over the shoulder and the exposed chest displaying a wan symbol, the broad face serene with red lips, the hair in tight whorls with blue pigments, the figure with traces of gilding, set into a later lotus base.
12 3/4in (32.4cm) high, exclusive of the base
The figure standing dressed in a dhoti tied at the waist, with long, loose robes draped over the shoulder and the exposed chest displaying a wan symbol, the broad face serene with red lips, the hair in tight whorls with blue pigments, the figure with traces of gilding, set into a later lotus base.
12 3/4in (32.4cm) high, exclusive of the base
Footnotes
清乾隆 錘揲銅佛像
A nearly identical repousse figure, also Qianlong period, was sold at Christies New York, 23 March 2011, lot 1639. Another slightly larger repousse figure of standing Buddha, dated to the 18th/19th century, was sold at Christie's, New York, The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, 20 March 2015, lot 774.
For a larger but similarly modelled copper repousse figure of the Buddhist disciple Kashyapa, dated 1800-1900, from the Avery Brundage Collection, San Fransisco Museum of Art, see www.asianart.org /Chinese Art/Sculpture - Object Number: B60B326.
For a Ming pre-cursor in cast gilt-bronze see Eskanazi, Chinese Buddhist Sculpture from Northern Wei to Ming, March, 2002, pp.52-55, no. 15.
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