The Bodhisattva of compassion seated on a wide lotus petal throne, the top incised with the motif of lotus pods, luxuriously positioned in Sattvaparyankasana, wearing a shawl drawn across the body and falling in pleats over the left shoulder, the dhoti held in place by an ornamented waist band wrapping around the legs in a chased striated pattern, with gem set armbands set high on the shoulders, a necklace with attached pendants, and lotus-form earrings resting on the shoulders, the left hand supporting his weight from behind and holding the stalk of a lotus that follows the curve of the arm with a lotus blossoming over the left shoulder, the head encircled in an aureole decorated in swirling flames
Details
- Title : A GILT COPPER FIGURE OF AVALOKITESHVARA
- Year : 9TH/10TH CENTURY
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : GILT COPPER
- Dimension : Height 10 ½ in. (26.7 cm)
- Accession No : Lot 322
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Collection : Sotheby’s
- Acquisition Method : PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN COLLECTION
- Status : LIVE AUCTION BEGINS IN: 22 September 2020 • New York
- Estimate: : 300,000 - 500,000 USD
- Provenance : Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, acquired from Dudley James, New York, 1922