Lot 425
  • 425

SEVEN SMALL BRONZE BUDDHIST FIGURES CHINA, SUI / TANG DYNASTY

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

including a lion, two gilded guardians, a buddha seated in a pavilion, an apsara, a male donor, and a lishi (strongman) (7)

Provenance

Collection of James Marshall Plumer (1899-1960).

Catalogue Note

Small buddhist images, like the ones that comprise the present lot, form part of larger groupings such as the one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in Chinese Art in Overseas Collections, Buddhist Sculpture II, Taipei, 1986, pl. 15.