清晚期 銅金剛手菩薩像 the wrathful deity having four faces and six arms, and both legs standing in alidhasana, embracing his consort. Each leg crushes an upturned victim, all atop an oval-form lotus base. One hand holds a scepter, while hands extending laterally hold apanamudra.
Height 7 1/2 in., 19 cm.
Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.
