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Samantabhadra is the Bodhisattva associated with the practise of Buddhist teaching and joins Manjushri, the lord of transcendent wisdom, in a trinity with Shakyamuni Buddha. The Bodhisattva is borne by a white elephant, symbolic of the strength achieved through the practise of Buddhism.

The bronze is typical of l꧃ater Ming works, finely cast and of rich colour, and made with elegant reference to antiquity, the heavy and elaborate jewellery and voluminous undulating robes echoing the classical styles of Northern Qi through Song period sculpture. Compareꦆ a figure of Samantabhadra seated on a recumbent elephant sold together with a figure of Manjushri on the back of a lion in our New York rooms, 23rd March 2010, lot 80; and another of Samantabhadra seated on an elephant, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28th November 2006, lot 1610.

There is a long tradition of depicting the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra in bronze. A Song dynasty figure of Samantabhadra in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated as one of a pair, together with the Bodhisattva Manjusri in Zhongguo meishu quanji. Diaosu bian [The com﷽plete collection of Chinese art: Sculptures], vol. 5, 198💃9, Beijing, pls. 153-154. See also the example from the collection of Sakamoto Goro, sold in these rooms, 5th October 2016, lot 3222, and an earlier Tang dynasty gilt-bronze prototype, previously exhibited at the Kubuso Museum, Japan, 1993, sold in our New York rooms, 20th March 2007, lot 735.

The quality of the figure and definition of the serene🐬 facial feature🌳s is also reminiscent of that on a sixteenth century lacquer-gilt bronze figure of the same size, depicting Simhanada Avalokiteshvara, sold in these rooms, 3rd October 2017, lot 3666.