MONUMENTAL POLYCHROME PAINTED STUCCO BODDISATVA YUAN-MING DY...

Hammer

£4,500

MONUMENTAL POLYCHROME PAINTED STUCCO BODDISATVA
YUAN-MING DYNASTY 
shown standing on a lotus base with hands held before the body in amida mudra, wearing long flowing loose robe and coiled up hair, and a gilt tiara 
144cm high approx

PROVENANCE: Private Somerset collection

NOTE: for a pair of similar figures dated Yuan / Ming see - Christie's, Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 13 - 14 September 2018, lot 1128

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Painted decoration has been refreshed
There are multiple losses and the stucco throughout
Parts of some fingers are lacking and with wire showing through
Some areas of replaces stucco and several cracks and loose components
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