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PROPERTY FROM A JAPANESE PRIVATE COLLECTION

A POLYCHROME POTTERY FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA, NORTHERN QI DYNASTY

Auction Closed

September 23, 08:35 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A POLYCHROME POTTERY FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA

NORTHERN QI DYNASTY

北齊 陶加彩菩薩立像


carved standing upright with a harness-style necklace crossed over the body, the head adorned with an elaborate diadem trailing sashes and framed by a peaked integral mandorla, the proper right hand raised to touch a torque, the other lowered and holding a wish-granting pearl, with polychrome pigments highlighting various elements of the composition, mounted to a modern stand, Japanese wood box (4)


Height 6¼ in., 15.9 cm

A nearly identical ceramic figure, extending to the feet and complete with a lotus pedestal base and lacking applied pigment, dated by inscription to the 5th day of the 10th month of 563, is now preserved at the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, acc. no. BATEA:22.