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A FOUR-ARMED FEMALE BODHISATTVA SEATED ON A GOOSE.
17th / 18th Century.
Seated on a goose seated on a lotus base formed of a band of double Vajra below a band of lappets, the figure with the right forearm holding a lotus stem, and the left raised, the back two arms crossed behind the back, the goose with the head turned back, the legs tucked underneath and the tail plumage facing upwards, 15.5cm H.
£8,000-12,000
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A CHINESE GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF GREEN TARA.
19th Century.
Seated in lalitasama on a double lotus base, the right foot on a lotus pod, the right hand in varadamudra and the left raised in vitarkamudra, clad in a dhoti secured with an elaborate belt, the head with a foliate tiara, the hair in a conical chignon, 11.5cm H.
£400-600
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A SINO-TIBETAN CAST GILT BRONZE SHADAKSHARI AVALOKITESHVARA.
18th Century.
Seated in dhyanasana over a double-lotus throne, his primary hands in front of the chest and his secondary hands raised, wearing a sash and close-fitting dhoti with an antelope-skin around his shoulders, the face in meditation surmounted by a foliate tiara, the hair pulled into a high chignon topped with a human face, 11cm H.
£650-750
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A TIBETAN THANGKA PAINTING DEPICTING BLUE TARA.
19th Century.
Painted and gilded on cotton, the central Blue Tara sitting behind a bowl of offerings within a mountainous watery landscape, the Dhyani Buddha Amitabha above Tara, flanked by Buddha Shakyamuni and Tsonkhapa, with the Manjushri and Mahakala on either side of the offering, 65 x 49cm.
Provenance: English private collection.
£1,000-2,000
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A RARE RED AND GOLD PAINTED SUTRA BOX.
18th Century.
The rectangular box, enclosing a drawer to contain the sacred book, painted on three sides with gold on a monastic-red ground, the front of the box depicting an image of Chakravartin, the righteous universal monarch, in a highly symbolic landscape populated by figures and animals, 33.5 x 67.5 x 27.5cm.
Provenance: Visions of Perfect Worlds, Buddhist Art from the Himalayas, Spink and Son Ltd, 1999, cat no 72.
£2,500-3,000
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