A RARE GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI

Lot 2704
09.07.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 2704 | A RARE GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI
A RARE GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI

INCISED TIANSHUN 6TH YEAR MARK CORRESPONDING TO 1462 AND OF THE PERIOD

The figure is seated in dhyanasana on a double lotus base, with his right hand in bhumisparsamudra, his left hand in dhyanamudra, wearing a softly pleated robe draped over the left shoulder and falling in rounded folds on the base, the serene face is framed by long pendulous ears with vertical slits and hair arranged in rows of tight whorls surmounted by a domed usnisa. There are four incised inscriptions on the base: a seven-character mark inscription on the top in the front reading Da Ming Tianshun liunian zao, ‘Made in the sixth year of the Tianshun period of the Great Ming’; a five-character inscription below the lotus petals in the front reading shizun Shijiafo, ‘ten Buddha Shakyamuni’; a seven-character inscription below the petals on the back reading shanren Wang Ming shi miaoxiu, ‘dedicated by Wang Ming’; a single character inscription on the underside of the base reading jiu, ‘nine’.

13 5/8 in. (34.1 cm.) high, box

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