225. RARE STATUETTE DE BOUDDHA ENFANT EN BRONZE Dynastie Liao (907-1125)/Song (960-1279) A RARE BRONZE FIGURE OF THE INFANT BUDDHA Liao/Song Dynasty Standing on a circular lotus base, his left arm raised to the sky and his right arm extending down pointing at the earth, wearing a diaphanous apron tied around his neck and a skirt loosely tied around his waist, his face with a serene expression, stand. 27.3cm (10 3/4in) high. 遼/宋 銅誕生佛立像 Provenance: Collection of Joachim Schlotterbeck (1926-2007), Würzburg, acquired from his collection in 1993 來源： 符茲堡Joachim Schlotterbeck (1926-2007)珍藏 現藏家於1993年得自上述來源 Compare with a bronze figure of the infant buddha in the collection of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, illustrated in René-Yvon Lefebvre d'Argencé, Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, 1974, pl.185, where the textual origins of the iconography is discussed. The distinctive lotus base is comparable to that of a censer, dated to the Liao dynasty, sold Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2018, lot 2910.