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Lot 3037
A Gilt Bronze Seated Buddha Sculpture
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Southeast Asian, possibly Vietnamese or Thai, seated with eyes open, long earlobes from his princely earrings, three fold neck for past, present, and future, hands and feet are flatly modeled, a metal cord through the center underneath, hollow base has thick white substance blocking access to upper cavity of sculpture, some metal juts in interior of base could mean it was possibly previously attached to a larger base, alter, or grouping.

21 in.

Some verdigris; spots of a white substance in places over the surface including legs, hand, and hair; spots of loss to gilding.