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A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
Estimate
10 000 - 15 000 SEK
955 - 1 430 EUR
1 090 - 1 630 USD
Hammer price
12 000 SEK
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A bronze Buddha Vairocana, Eastern Java, 10th century.
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.