A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE OF AMIDA NYORAI (AMITABHA)

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$ 12 000
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19.03.2024 10:00UTC -04:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Lot 137 | A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE OF AMIDA NYORAI (AMITABHA)
A CARVED WOOD SCULPTURE OF AMIDA NYORAI (AMITABHA)

KAMAKURA PERIOD (13TH-14TH CENTURY)

Carved and assembled from cypress wood in single-block technique (ichiboku-zukuri) and modeled as the Amitabha Buddha standing on an unseperateble round platform, the right hand raised in vitarkamudra and the left held in dhyanamudra, the hair arranged in small, snail-shaped spiral curls (rahotsu), wearing robe decorated in kirikane open at the torso and falling in pleats, inlaid jewels on the forehead and in the hair

6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.)

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