Live Auction 16723The Collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller: Travel and Americana
A GILT-BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF BUDDHA
Lot 1027

A GILT-BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF BUDDHA

THAILAND, RATNAKOSIN PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed10 May 2018

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A GILT-BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF BUDDHA
THAILAND, RATNAKOSIN PERIOD, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Cast seated in sattvasana on a shaped plinth, with his right hand in bhumisparsha mudra, his face in a serene expression of meditation, with arched brows and pendulous earlobes, his hair curled, with high tiered ushnisha
11 ½ in. (28.5 cm.) high

Yamanaka and Co, Bar Harbor, probably one of the seated Buddhas purchased on November 1, 1926.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, acquired from the above.
Winthrop Rockefeller, acquired from the above.
Acquired from the estate of the above, August 1974.