Boddhisattva en bronze Chine, Dynastie Ming, XVIIE siècle

debout sur une base lotiforme, vêtu d'un fin dhoti retenu par une ceinture formant un gros noeud, un lourd collier habillant la poitrine, le visage serein encadré de longues boucles d'oreille et surmonté d'un diadème à quatre pointes ; la base non scellée, petits chocs

Collection de Monsieur Le Testu, secrétaire d'ambassade à Pékin à la fin du XIX^E siècle.

Generally good with some traces of an old lacquer gilding. Some pitting/casting defaults to the surface, more visible to the rear of the figure and above the base, small dents to the tip-end of some of her right hand's fingers, dents to the front of the base rim, the base is unsealed. The actual color of the patina is much darker, almost dark greenish brown black, and not light russet brown as the illustration would suggest in the catalogue.
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