LOT 383 A CARVED LIME STONE MANDORLA DEPICTING BUDDHA AND TWO BODHISATTVA, China, Northern Wei dynasty (386 - 535 AD). The principal figure has a high Usnia, a lotus patterned halo and wears a broad sashed thin Kasaya, its hands in the Varada Mudras position and stands barefoot on a round pedestal. The two attendant Bodhisattvas wear high crowns with trailing ribbons and have lotus patterned halos. They are embellished with a scarf draped over their shoulders, which crosses in front of their bodies and drops from their arms and standing also barefooted on a lotus pedestal. At the top are six Apsaras. - Provenance: Bought in 2007 from J. J. Lally & Co., New York. - Described and illustrated in: Oi Ling Chiang: Collection Julius Eberhardt. Early Chinese Art, vol. 3, Hong Kong 2011, p. 82f. For a similar example see Cheng Pei-Kai: Compassion and Fascination, no. 31, in: Wenwu (2003). p. 81.
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