Live Auction 19039Sacred and Imperial: The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection Part II
A SILVER- AND COPPER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
Lot 955

A SILVER- AND COPPER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA

SWAT VALLEY OR KASHMIR, 9TH-10TH CENTURY

Closed24 September 2020

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A SILVER- AND COPPER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
SWAT VALLEY OR KASHMIR, 9TH-10TH CENTURY
Seated in dhyanasana on a throne supported by lions over a lotus base, holding a waterpot in the lower proper left hand, with a lotus blossoming at the proper left shoulder, the other hands spread around him in various mudras, the face with copper-inlaid lips and silver-inlaid eyes surmounted by an ornate crown
5 ½ in. (14 cm.) high

Spink and Son, Ltd., London, 6 June 1980.
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.

Specialist note


Traces of blue polychromy at the hair and cold gold at the face and neck indicate that this unidentified bodhisattva was later absorbed into a Tibetan collection. It was also later incised with the Tibetan numeral “3” at the back of the throne, indicating the position of the bronze within a larger set.