A BRONZE VOTIVE FIGURE OF SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA AND PRABHUTARATNA BUDDHA, NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY, DATED 8TH YEAR OF THE TAIHE PERIOD, CORRESPONDING TO 484 AD. | 北魏太和八年（484年） 銅釋迦多寶二佛並坐像

A BRONZE VOTIVE FIGURE OF SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA AND PRABHUTARATNA BUDDHA

NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY, DATED 8TH YEAR OF THE TAIHE PERIOD, CORRESPONDING TO 484 AD.

北魏太和八年（484年） 銅釋迦多寶二佛並坐像

cast with two Buddhas side by side seated in dhyanasana on a tapering four-legged plinth, each deity framed by an incised flame-shaped mandorla picked out with striated flaming motifs, the reverse of the mandorla decorated with a seated figure of Buddha within a foliate scroll-shaped border, the sides and reverse of the plinth incised with a dedicatory inscription dated to the sixth month of the eighth year of the Taihe period of the Northern Wei (484 AD)

Height 15 cm, 5⅞ in.