A SILVER AND COPPER-INLAID COPPER-ALLOY FIGURE OF SANGYE YARJON, TIBET, 13TH/14TH CENTURY | 十三/十四世紀 藏傳銅錯銀桑傑雅俊坐像
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November 4, 07:52 PM GMT
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8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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A SILVER AND COPPER-INLAID COPPER-ALLOY FIGURE OF SANGYE YARJON
TIBET, 13TH/14TH CENTURY
十三/十四世紀 藏傳銅錯銀桑傑雅俊坐像
Sangye Yarjön (1203-1272), 3rd abbot of Taklung monastery, with silver inlaid eyes and copper inlaid fingernails, wearing a patchwork robe inlaid with copper and silver and seated in vajraparyankasana on a lotus throne.
Height 11 cm, 4⅓ in.
Compare with a similar 13th/14th century example inscribed ‘Precious Yarjönpa’, illustrated in Homage to the Holy, Rossi and Rossi Ltd., London, 2003.