Important South African & International Art, Furniture, Decorative Arts & Jewellery
Live Auction, 17 March 2014
Cape, Colonial, Oriental & Continental Silver, Furniture & Decorative Arts
Lot Estimate
ZAR 25 000 - 35 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 318 304
About this Item
A gilt-bronze figure of Yellow Jambhala, Tibet, 18th/19th century
seated in lalitasana on his recumbent lion with a lotus base below, his left hand holding a mongoose and his right holding a lemon, the pot-bellied figure wearing a dhoti, jewels and a five-leaf crown, with gilded face and elongated ear-lobes, his right foot resting on a conch shell, the base sealed and engraved with a double-vajra, 18,5cm high
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