Solidly cast seated in dhyanasana with hands in dharmachakra mudra, wearing a tightly fitted sanghati, the face surmounted by the ushnisha, the gilding rubbed to reveal a warm deep copper tone 3 1/8 in. (7.8 cm.) high
Details
- Title : A gilt copper figure of Buddha
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : Gilt Copper
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Period : 7th/8th century
- Collection : Christies
- LOT : 170
- Pre-Lot Text : Property from the Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth
- Price realised : USD 18,750
- Estimate : USD 8,000 - USD 10,000
- Provenance : Christian Humann, Pan-Asian Collection, before 1977
- Literature : B. Rowland, The Evolution of the Buddha Image, 1963, fig. 20. *U. von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, 1981, fig. 74E, p. 304.
- Exhibited : New York, The Asia Society, The Evolution of the Buddha Image, 1963, cat. no. 20.