Bodhisattva Seishi (勢至菩薩) figure from the Muromachi period, half squating, half kneeling, his hands in the kongo gassho position (Añjali Mudrā) with the palms together in a vertical position before the chest. With pedestal in the form of curling leaves.
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Between 1400 and 1600
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November 1950: purchased by Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, Haastrecht at the sale of the collection of Wegener at Thefi-haus, Berlin, lot no. 753 (?)
by 1972
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: Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, Haastrecht
1972: lent to the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, by Vereniging van Vrienden der Aziatische Kunst, Haastrecht
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