Live Auction 18768The Oliver Hoare Collection
A JAPANESE NAGARE BOTOKE SCULPTURE OF A BOSATSU
Lot 114

A JAPANESE NAGARE BOTOKE SCULPTURE OF A BOSATSU

HEIAN PERIOD (12TH CENTURY)

Closed25 October 2019

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GBP 5,000

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A JAPANESE NAGARE BOTOKE SCULPTURE OF A BOSATSU
HEIAN PERIOD (12TH CENTURY)
Carved from Japanese cypress wood in a single-block technique (ichiboku-zukuri) and lacking defined features
13 ¾ in. (35 cm.) high

Specialist note

This nagare botoke (flowing Buddha) would have been an offering made to Buddhist deities left floating in a river.