Antique Buddhist Art
Today, Buddhist Art is one of the strongest and most competitively sort after areas of collecting among Asian Antiques.
Fine Buddhist Art has been and continues to be produced from India, Nepal, Tibet, Japan, China, and the greater South East Asia area.
Those objects produced in Nepal, Tibet, and Chinese are most sort after. With a preference towards gilding objects of devotion or fine paintings of Buddhist subjects.
Those objects from the early Ming dynasty to mid-Qing are favored by the new wave of devotional Chinese collectors and practitioners. Buddhism arrived in China four hundred years after its inception, and have experienced times of court favor and decline.
Many wonderful Buddhist works of Art in America are objects squired abroad post-revolution and tourist trade North of China.
Those objects acquired often represent Ritual implements, devotional objects, and tools of Buddhism- representing the portable property.
Chinese gilt bronze figure of Bodhisattva, Qianlong Period, late 18th century.
These usually take the form of gilded and carved celestial figures, stupa, vajra scepters, and paintings.
The commercial success of Buddhist works of art has meant a revival in reproductions and deceitful copies.
Robert Waterhouse has decades of experience distinguish the old from new! Subtle differences of casting technique, gliding style and quality and history of acquisition all play a part in the correct dating of an object.
