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A SMALL STONE STELE OF BODHISATTVA MAITREYA

In Asian Art: Spring Collections

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Marlborough, Massachusetts

A SMALL STONE STELE OF BODHISATTVA MAITREYA China, Northern and Southern dynasties style, with the central Bodhisattva seated cross-legged with the right hand in abhaya mudra and the left in varada under a pointed arch, against an aureole around the head, flanked with standing bodhisattva figures and other deities in the background, mounted on a wood stand, overall ht. 18, stele ht. 15 in. Footnotes: Provenance: By repute, family collection in Massachusetts, formed by the current owner's grandfather in Paris during the 1920s. Note: A similar example is at the National Museum of Asian Art at Smithsonian. https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/edanmdm:fsg_F1911.412/. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

A SMALL STONE STELE OF BODHISATTVA MAITREYA China, Northern and Southern dynasties style, with the central Bodhisattva seated cross-legged with the right hand in abhaya mudra and the left in varada under a pointed arch, against an aureole around the head, flanked with standing bodhisattva figures and other deities in the background, mounted on a wood stand, overall ht. 18, stele ht. 15 in. Footnotes: Provenance: By repute, family collection in Massachusetts, formed by the current owner's grandfather in Paris during the 1920s. Note: A similar example is at the National Museum of Asian Art at Smithsonian. https://asia.si.edu/explore-art-culture/collections/search/edanmdm:fsg_F1911.412/. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing

Asian Art: Spring Collections

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Marlborough
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01752
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