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Important Winter Sale 669
1253(1678661)
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A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
Hammer price
12 000SEK
Estimate
10 000 - 15 000 SEK

Cast elegantly seated on a double lotus throne placed on a tall throne with pierced base with flower and two vertical openings. An elongated slim body, tall ushinsha, a dhoti that clings tightly to the body speaks of influences from northeast India, Nalanda. Height 11.5 cm.

Missing its parasol. Tarnished, encrustation.

Provenance

Purchased by a Swedish collector of Buddhist art from Boran Asian Art, Miles Gilbert, London, Grays Mews, October 2010, in comission for Thomas White, brittisk diplomat, MBE, stationed at Java in the 1960's.

Literature

Compare with buddhas in the Rijksmuseeum, Amsterdam, Divine Bronze, 1988. And the Lotus Transcendent, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992.

For condition report contact specialist
Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Senior specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
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A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.

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