ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
Last week's "
Bodies of Light" auction at Sotheby's reached $3,460,250. Bodies of Infinite Light, an auction of Buddhist art spanning the Northern and Southern dynasties to the Qing dynasty, includes an exceptional polychrome wood figure of Jinasagara Avalokiteshvara from the Xuande period, a finely embroidered silk Qing dynasty thangka of Ekadashamukha Avalokiteshvara and rare bronzes from the Dali Kingdom, among other works. In addition, the sale features twenty sculptures formerly in the Chang Foundation Collection and illustrated in the seminal 1993 published catalog Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal. [
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