RARE PAIR OF MONUMENTAL POLYCHROME PAINTED STUCCO BODDISATVA...

Hammer

£9,000

RARE PAIR OF MONUMENTAL POLYCHROME PAINTED STUCCO BODDISATVAS
YUAN-MING DYNASTY 
shown standing on a lotus base with head hands held before the body in amida mudra, wearing long flowing loose robes and coiled up hair and a gilt tiara 
146cm 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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Paint has been refreshed. There are multiple losses of the stucco throughout, with associated breaks and visible wires. Both figures are a little loose on the lotus bases. Both with some old repairs most notable on the necks.