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Two 19th/early 20th C Japanese Buddhas. Both are well cast out of a metal I am unfamiliar with, but it is not bronze brass or copper. I believe that both of these were inside shrine boxes for their entire lives up until recently. This is the reason that the applied gold patination is in such good condition. It is emulating gilding, though it is not true gold. I am unfamiliar with this type, but I came across a group of them that all had beautiful faces and really fine detail and I couldn’t resist. The second one originally had a base very similar to the one that has a base, but it must have broken/gotten damage and one of the previous owners decided to remove it. It does stand reasonably well on its own, and if it wasn’t with the other one, you wouldn’t know that it was missing anything. My feeling is that they are late 19th early 20th century. Large ( 9.5"W x 3"W x 3"D ) - 490g. // Small ( 6.25"H x 2.75"W x 1"D ) - 210g.
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