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8th Century Sri Lankan Anuradhapura Gilt Bronze Buddha

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: Sri Lanka: Pre AD 1000   item# 535606 (stock# 1017)

8th Century Sri Lankan Anuradhapura Gilt Bronze Buddha
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0044 (0)795 422 8735


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Details: A rare example of 8th Century Sri Lankan Gilt Bronze Buddha in the Anuradhapura style. Sakyamuni is seated in virasana with both hands in dhyanamudra and is wearing a diaphanous cloak. He has a plump face holding a meditative expression with arched eyebrows, elongated earlobes and tightly curled hair. The Buddha has a strong and powerful looking body with delicately cast hands and feet.

It is worth noting that ...click for details


2nd-3rd Century Gandharan Green Schist Reliquary Casket

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: Pre AD 1000   item# 820719 (stock# 1077)

2nd-3rd Century Gandharan Green Schist Reliquary Casket
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0044 (0)795 422 8735


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Details: A very cute and tactile example of a 2nd to 3rd century green schist reliquary casket from Gandhara. The spherical casket has two delicately incised concentric lines on both the top and bottom typical of Gandharan reliquaries and is topped by a pistil shaped knob. The casket contains three relics, a bronze coin and two glass items, one of which shows the ancient auspicious symbol of the swastika.

In W. Zal ...click for details


2nd to 3rd Century Gandhara Stone Head of a Bodhisattva

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: India: Pre AD 1000   item# 512258 (stock# 1003)

2nd to 3rd Century Gandhara Stone Head of a Bodhisattva
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0044 (0)795 422 8735


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Details: An excellent example of a Gandhara sandstone head of a Bodhisattva, possibly Maitreya. His face carved with a serene expression, urna, heavy lidded eyes and a smiling mouth. He is wearing an elaborate headdress with floral rosettes woven in between his many beautifully carved curls.

Age: 2nd to 3rd Century

Height: 12 cm (Base not i ...click for details


11th Century Bronze Nagapattinam Seated Buddha

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: India: Pre 1492   item# 843247 (stock# 1089)

11th Century Bronze Nagapattinam Seated Buddha
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0044 (0)795 422 8735


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Details: A rare and attractive 11th century Chola period bronze image of the seated Buddha from Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu. The Buddha is sitting in the half lotus posture (Satvaparyankasana), his right leg over his left upon an elaborate multi tiered throne supporting an ornate double lotus pedestal reminiscent of 9th to 10th century Pala pieces. His hands are placed in his lap in the attitude of meditation (Samadhimudra or Dhyanamudra). His monastic garments are arranged so as to leave the righ ...click for details


18th Century Polychrome Tibetan Image of Amitayus

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: Himalayas: Pre 1800   item# 746256 (stock# 1054)

18th Century Polychrome Tibetan Image of Amitayus
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0044 (0)795 422 8735


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Details: A rare and very attractive 18th century wooden polychrome image of Amitayus from Tibet. Amitayus , the Buddha of infinite life, is represented here in his traditional iconography. He sits deep in contemplation, in the diamond posture, upon a lotus throne, with both hands flat in the contemplation gesture, holding a vase containing the “Elixir of Life” (water, saffron, and nectar pills) with a stylized “three of life” on top of it. ...click for details


19th Century Rajasthani Picchvai of Sri Nathji

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: India: Pre 1837 VR   item# 819681 (stock# 1074)

19th Century Rajasthani Picchvai of Sri Nathji
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0044 (0)795 422 8735


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Details: A decorative and very pretty example of a Picchvai of Krishna as Sri Nathji from Rajasthan, India. Sri Nathji is wearing some ornate beaded necklaces and a lotus garland over his grey and green Chakdarwagha. Below the Sanskrit text, upon his head is a large peacock feather headdress and he is holding the lakut (cow herder's stick) and a lotus in his right hand. The image is backed by a patterned grey background, with the golden Pandan box, betel leaves and a covered pitcher of h ...click for details


16th Century Tibetan Dhyani Buddha Akshobhya

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: Himalayas: Pre 1700   item# 745937 (stock# 1051)

16th Century Tibetan Dhyani Buddha Akshobhya
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0044 (0)795 422 8735


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Details: A good quality example of a 16th century gilt copper Dhyani Buddha Akshobhya form Tibet. He is seated with his hands in bhumishparsha mudra, wearing a simple close fitting robe and seated in vajraparyankasana on a double lotus pedestal supporting a vajra.

Akshobhya is one of the five transcendent cosmic Buddhas in the Tibetan Pantheon. As one of the five, he helps in overcoming the affliction of anger, one o ...click for details


11th Century Western Tibetan Figure of Maitreya

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: Himalayas: Pre 1492   item# 821874 (stock# 1078)

11th Century Western Tibetan Figure of Maitreya
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0044 (0)795 422 8735


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Details: A cute and rare example of an 11th century bronze figure of the bodhisattva Maitreya from Western Tibetan. This early Western Tibetan piece displays classic Kashmiri stylistic elements, such as the nimbus and the dhoti worn with one short leg secured with a sash hanging down between his flexed legs. However, the two different types of earrings point to an Indian tradition along with the beaded jewelry and is a highly unusual feature in the Kashmiri context. Both these elements of sty ...click for details


14th-15th Century Southern Indian Bronze Ganesha

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: India: Pre 1492   item# 512192 (stock# 1001)

14th-15th Century Southern Indian Bronze Ganesha
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0044 (0)795 422 8735


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Details: A lovely example of a miniature bronze figure of the divinity Ganesha from Southern India. In this image he has a large belly and four arms which are holding his attributes; a ball of sweetmeats, an elephant goad, a noose and his broken tusk. He is seated upon a circular cushion atop a square base. The son of Shiva and Parvati, Ganesha is the Hindu god of knowledge and the remover of obstacles. His mount is a rat which represents ignorance. ...click for details


2nd-3rd Century Gandharan Grey Schist Hand of Buddha

Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: India: Pre AD 1000   item# 745296 (stock# 1048)

2nd-3rd Century Gandharan Grey Schist Hand of Buddha
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0044 (0)795 422 8735


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Details: A beautiful example of a Gandharan Buddha hand mounted on a perspex base. The finely carved fingers tapering elegantly, with the webbing delicately between them.

The Buddha's webbed fingers are one of the thirty-two major signs (lakshanas) of his superhuman nature. (As legend has it, Buddha’s webbed fingers are representative of a net to gather in his followers.) ...click for details

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