Lot 3

An Assembled Collection of Six Asian Carved, Gilded, and Polychrome Wood Figures and Architectural Models (19th/20th Century)

Estimate: $300 - $500

Price Realized: $532 Includes buyer's premium

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Lot 3
An Assembled Collection of Six Asian Carved, Gilded, and Polychrome Wood Figures and Architectural Models (19th/20th Century)
Description
An assorted collection of Asian religious and architectural decorative carvings composed of a small seated Buddha figure displaying traces of polychrome pigment, a multi-part standing figure sculpted with a hand-carved alabaster head and a heavily gilded wood torso adorned with inset colored glass garment inlays forming a concentric circular collar decoration, all mounted to a stepped block plinth hollowed at the reverse with a rectangular cavity above a weathered log base displaying a circular peg hole, two miniature architectural models of multi-tiered Buddhist stupas or shrines highlighted with partial gilding, a small figure seated atop a stylized animal vehicle, and a miniature standing warrior or guardian figure holding a long staff weapon
Details
Wood, gilt lacquer, polychrome enamel, pigment.
largest: 29 1/4 x 13 x 8 1/2 inches
Provenance
The Estate of Janice and Donald Rosenthal
Condition
Fair condition; multiple individual colored glass garment inlays are missing from the decorative concentric collar on the main figure, with a visible adhesive or material repair where the alabaster head joins the wooden torso, extensive structural wood boring tracks and heavy radial shrinkage cracks across the unpainted log underside, a large rectangular vertical aperture hand-chiseled into the reverse of the block base, and generalized flaking, chipping, and wood losses across the polychrome and gilt lacquer layers


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