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Lot 29

A gilt copper repoussé arhat
Tibet, 18th century

18 September 2013, 10:00 EDT
New York

US$10,000 - US$15,000

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A gilt copper repoussé arhat

Tibet, 18th century
Rendered in two sections, his face with a creased forehead and prominent cheek bones, wearing voluminous robes and his right hand in vitarka mudra.
13 in. (33 cm) high

Footnotes

Compare with a closely related example of Tsongkhapa in the Kandell Collection, now in the Freer-Sackler Galleries, published in Rhie and Thurman, The Alice S. Kandell Collection, New York, 2009, no. I-13. Also see another published in Xu Tianfu (ed.), Faces of Dharma: Selected Works of Tibetan Buddhist Art, Taipei, 2012, no. 45, p. 92.

Provenance:
Private Collection, Los Angeles

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