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Lot 56
Sale 2025 - Asian Works of Art
Sep 20, 2024
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$2,000 -
3,000
Price Realized
$3,175
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Lot Description
A Gilt Repousse Copper Alloy Figure of a Seated Monk, Probably Dolonor, Inner Mongolia, 18th/19th Century
清中期 銅鎏金上師坐像
清中期 銅鎏金上師坐像
Qing Dynasty, 18th/19th Century
The figure with closely-cropped hair, in flowing robes with scroll-incised borders, seated in padmasana atop a draped double cushion with brocade pattern and peony reserves, his hands in Vitarka mudra.
Note:
Compare the treatment of the draperies and the chest to a gilt-bronze repousse Buddha sold at Christie's, New York, September 28, 2021, lot 66; compare the treatment of the double cushion to a figure of a Lama, sold at Sotheby's, Paris, December 12, 2013, lot 33. See also the gilt metal portrait of Gelug Lama Gyaltsab Je from the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, Himalayan Art Resources #75062.
Height 12 1/2 in., 31.8 cm.
This lot is located in Philadelphia.