FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF SENOR JORGE CASARES: A REPUTED ARGENTINIAN ORNITHOLOGIST (BY REPUTE)

A HEAVY CASTED BRONZE FIGURE OF A STANDING ATTENDANT OR MONK
China, Possibly Ming Dynasty
The attendant...

FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF SENOR JORGE CASARES: A REPUTED ARGENTINIAN ORNITHOLOGIST (BY REPUTE)

A HEAVY CASTED BRONZE FIGURE OF A STANDING ATTENDANT OR MONK
China, Possibly Ming Dynasty
The attendant or monk standing on a lotus base, wearing a large coat and joining his hands in dhyana mudra. Dark brown to light brown patina.
H: 36
Weight: More than 5000 grams.

Provenance:
- a private collection;
- Señor Jorge Casares, Buenos Aires, Argentina, a reputed ornithologist born in a wealthy landowning family, also a relative of the renowned Argentinian fiction author Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914-1999) and a fellow of W.H. Hudson (1921-1982), an Argentinian-borned British Naturalist and Ornithologist. He is praised to have donated his library to the Sociedad Ornitológica del Plata (by repute).

重铸青铜侍从或僧侣立像
中国，明朝

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