137 - The Property of a Lady, lots 116-147

The Property of a Lady, lots 116-147 A massive Chinese gilt-lacquered documentary bronze figure of a Bodhisattva Ming dynasty, the ninth year of the Hongzhi period, circa 1496 The figure seated in padmasana on a double-lotus throne, their body clad in thickly-folded robes and bedecked in beaded jewellery, their face downcast in a serene expression beneath the five-pointed crown depicting the Buddhas of the five directions, 61.5cm high, on a hongmu stand formed as a rectangular low table. Provenance:an important London private collection. The reverse is inscribed: ‘In the ninth year of the Hongzhi period (1496), the monk Lian, while raising funds for religious purposes, travelled to [unreadable place name] in Huguang, to Lin Family Village at Linjiangkou, to pray for blessings…’ 明弘治九年約一四九六 銅漆金菩薩像 銘文：弘治九年子□募緣僧蓮進香湖廣□州府惠州陵安福□□臨江口林家庄土地居住□□□佛□□□信士□□禮……請福祈…… 來源：重要倫敦私人收藏。