8th Century Sri Lankan Anuradhapura Gilt Bronze Buddha
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Pre AD 1000 item# 535606 (stock# 1017)
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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
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11th Century Bronze Pala Image of White Tara
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Pre 1492 item# 832476 (stock# 1086)
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Details: A beautiful and alluring example of an 11th century Pala White Tara probably from Kurkihar or Nalanda in Bihar. The voluptuous proportions of Tara's fully revealed figure reflect the full perfect body of youth and vitality. Her heavy regal ornaments stand out against her smooth, languorous form. Tara’s head supports rich locks of hair and the heavy crown of a Bodhisattva once inset with precious gems above her attractive face. Her bow shaped slanted eyebrows, curved and large almond ...click for details
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14th Century Western Tibetan Image of Green Tara
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Pre 1492 item# 745945 (stock# 1052)
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Details: A rare Western Tibetan image of the goddess Green Tara from the 14th century. The image is well cast standing in a gentle tribhanga on a double lotus base. Her hand held in varada mudra, wearing a long elegant dhoti secured with a belt and pendant sashes, multiple necklaces, bracelets and earrings with many inlaid hard stones. Her face, which retains much of the original gilding, is joyful with a broad contented smile. She is adorned with a foliate tiara and flanked by a lotus flower ...click for details
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16th Century Shan Burmese Bronze Buddha
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Pre 1700 item# 512870 (stock# 1006)
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Details: A fine example of a Shan Burmese Buddha with a wonderful deep green patina. Seated in vajrasana (diamond throne) posture on a circular base, his right hand in bhumisparshamudra (calling the earth to witness mudra), the left palm upward on his lap, wearing sanghati (frontal piece of cloth hanging from Buddha's left shoulder), his face serene with semi-down cast eyes, smiling lips, elongated earlobes, and lotus usnisha (top knot that indicates an enlightened being). ...click for details
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11th Century Gilt Khmer Bronze Figure of a Female Deity
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Pre 1492 item# 855076 (stock# 1094)
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Details: A worn but wonderfully sensuous example of a partly gilt Khmer figure of either Lakshami, Uma or Prajnaparamita. Unfortunately, the figure is too worn to make out any iconographic details on her crown and is lacking her hands which would have held some identifiable attributes. She is heavily jeweled and wearing her classically Baphuon style pleated sampot dipping below her navel, which accentuates her voluptuous sensual figure. Her face is seductive with full lips, almond eyes and achi ...click for details
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18th Century Gilt Sino Tibetan Vajrapani
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Pre 1800 item# 818450 (stock# 1073)
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Details: An intimidating and vigorous Sino Tibetan gilt example of the fierce wrathful Buddhist deity Vajrapani. The holder of the thunderbolt scepter and conqueror of negativity brandishes a vajra in an exorcising gesture in his right hand, and with his left hand makes the threatening gesture with his index finger pointed up. His taut posture is the active warrior pose (pratayalidha, based on an archer’s stance) to show a terrifying readiness to do battle with evil. He has flaming red hair, t ...click for details
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12th Century Khmer Rock Crystal Shiva Lingam and Yoni
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Pre 1492 item# 747425 (stock# 1055)
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Details: An excellent example of a classic 12th century Khmer rock crystal Shiva Lingam sitting on its bronze Yoni.
The linga or lingam (Sanskrit for "symbol") symbolizes the god Shiva and is the form in which he is most commonly worshipped. The linga is a simple stylized phallus that nearly always rests on a stylized yoni, or female sex organ. Together, the linga and yoni represent the power of creative e ...click for details
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8th Century Dvaravati Mon Bust of Buddha
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Pre AD 1000 item# 687260 (stock# 1035)
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Details: This is a classic example of a very early Mon type Dvaravati Buddha. Buddha is elegant with both his hands in vitarkamudra and wearing a long clinging robe covering both his shoulders. His handsome face carries a serene expression with a deep contented smile below half closed heavy lidded eyes. Notice also his attractive hair arranged in tight curls around a high usnisa topped with a lotus bud and his naturalistic long pendulous ears. This bust of Buddha would have originally stood erec ...click for details
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