LIAO DYNASTY (AD 907-1125)

Two small Liao dynasty gilt-bronze figures stylistically similar to the present figure are illustrated by M. L. Gridley, Chinese Buddhist Sculpture Under the Liao, New Dehli, India, 1993, p. 95, fig. 136 (bronze Buddha in the Ku-kung Historical Survey, Beijing) and p. 109, fig. 152 (a bodhisattva in the Shanghai Museum). See, also, another similar gilt-bronze figure of Buddha sold at Christie’s New York, 17 September 2008, lot 392.