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Lot 335 - A183AS Asian Art: Japan, India, South-East Asia - Monday, 04. December 2017, 02.00 PM

TWO WOODEN HORYU-JI STYLE APSARA FIGURES.

Japan, Meiji period, height 50 and 51 cm (including aureole).
Paint hinoki (cypress) and kusunoki (camphor) wood. One figure was presumably made by Niiro Chûnosuke (1869-1954), the other by his workshop. In 1906 he was in charge of the conservation and restoration of the main hall of the Hôryûji. Minor damage. (2)

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Similar wooden apsara figures originate from the Kondô (main hall) of the Hôryû-ji temple in Nara, dating from the 7th c. and 13th c. They are attached to the wooden canopy above the Amida Nyorai figure. Compare e.g. Kurata Bunsaku. Hôryû-ji: Temple of the Exalted Law, Early Buddhist Art from Japan. Japan Society Gallery, Kyôto, Japan (1981), p. 56-59.
Provenance: Swiss private collection, originally purchased with Koller, Zurich in May 1982, lot 804.


CHF 2 000 / 3 000 | (€ 2 060 / 3 090)

Sold for CHF 2 375 (including buyer’s premium)
All information is subject to change.