TIBET, 18th CENTURY - Lot 56

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TIBET, 18th CENTURY - Lot 56
TIBET, 18th CENTURY Gilded bronze subject with a beautiful patina representing a Padmapani seated in lalitasana (royal relaxation) on a double lotus, his head slightly tilted and crowned with a diadem evoking a stupa. He is richly adorned, with two carnelian beads inlaid near his ears, in the center of his pendant adornment, and atop his headdress. He is dressed in deerskin and leaning against the lotus padma (a blossoming lotus stem). Characters on the reverse in Tibetan meaning "eighty" and in illegible Devanajiri. H. 11.8 cm Provenance Private collection of Monsieur Auguste Gérard (1852-1922), French ambassador to China (1893-1897) and Japan (1907-1913). Then by descent to the current owner. Lot possibly mentioned as "statuette de déesse en bronze doré" in the fifth line (p.2) of the inventory of objects entrusted by Monsieur Auguste Gérard, French ambassador to Tokyo, to M. Paul du Toict, Bould. du Régent 25 in Brussels in 1906. An anonymized copy of the page concerning this lot may be delivered to the buyer. Note Viscount Paul du Toict (1847-1909) was a member of the administrative committee of the Société Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, which organized art exhibitions. He was also former president of the Belgian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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