A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF MANJUSHRI


NORTHEASTERN INDIA, PALA PERIOD, 11TH CENTURYHimalayan Art Resources item no.61903 3 in. (7.6 cm) high
|印度東北部 帕拉時期 十一世紀 文殊菩薩銅像 Flailing sashes add vigor and compositional balance to this svelte figure of Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Perfected Wisdom. Manjushri holds the Wisdom Sword aloft and the Prajnaparamita Sutra before his chest. Manjushri's broad smile lingers beneath the bronze's buttery patina exhibiting the hallmarks of a much cherished and propitiated personal icon under the devotee's thumb. Compare a Pala bronze Avalokiteshvara of the same scale, alloy, and stylistic type sold recently at Christie's, New York, 21 March 2018, lot 301 and formerly in the J.R. Belmont and Pan-Asian collections. Provenance Private Californian Collection, before 1980