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A large carved wood bodhisattva on a qilin, Ming dynasty | 明 木雕菩薩坐像

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June 15, 03:38 PM GMT

Estimate

50,000 - 80,000 EUR

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A large carved wood bodhisattva on a qilin

Ming dynasty


possibly Ksitigarbha, seated in lalitasana on a lotus throne supported on the back of a qilin, the right hand in vitarkamudra, the mythical beast standing on a lotus plinth, its body painted with black scales, the feet clawed and the head dragon-like

Height 98 cm, 38½ in.

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Sculpture en bois d'un bodhisattva sur un qilin, dynastie Ming

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明 木雕菩薩坐像

Sotheby's, London, 11th March 1969, lot 59.

Eskenazi Ltd., London.

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倫敦蘇富比1969年3月11日,編號59

埃斯卡納齊,倫敦

Related Bodhisattvas include a triad set carved in mammoth ivory of Shayamuni with Samanthabhadra and Manjushri, dated to the Yuan or Song dynasty, similarly seated on mythical animals, preserved in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (accession number 34.26.1a, b-.3a, b.).