Lot n° 487
Estimation :
1500 - 2000
EUR
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Result
: 3 000EUR
JAPON - Lot 487
JAPON
Beautiful and rare black lacquer portable altar opening in front with two doors, revealing a female Buddhist deity with eight arms (probably the goddess Kannon), seated in dyanasana, holding a fruit and other offerings in carved wood with traces of polychromy; gilded base in the form of a lotus flower resting on rocks; gilded background with mandorla; doors painted in polychromy with servant characters of the Buddhist Pantheon, not far from a river with embarkation, on a gold background. The gilded brass lock with rich ornamentation of naturalistic motifs.
Late Momoyama/early Edo period
H.: 38 cm (some polychromatic damage to the goddess and to the back of the box)
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