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A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF BUDDHA, TIBET, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
作品估价：EUR 4,000
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拍品名称：
A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF BUDDHA, TIBET, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
拍品描述：
A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF BUDDHA, TIBET, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
Seated in dhayanasana on a double lotus base with beaded rims, wearing an intricately executed patchwork robe, highlighted with incised decoration and gathering in subtly modeled folds at the ankles. The serene face with downcast eyes below gently arched eyebrows centered by an urna, his slender bow-shaped lips forming a gentle smile, flanked by slit pendulous lobes. The hair arranged in rows of tight curls over a high domed ushnisha topped by a bud-shaped finial.
Provenance
: From a private bourgeois family collection in Paris, France.
Condition
: Very good condition with minor wear, casting irregularities, small nicks, light scratches, tiny dings, rubbing and minor losses to gilt, small areas of verdigris. Unsealed.
Weight: 1.7 kg
Dimensions: Height 19.2 cm
While many images of the Buddha
cast in Tibet depict him wearing a diaphanous and unadorned sanghati, earlier Nepalese models have the Buddha garbed in patchwork robes, which was then carried over into some Tibetan sculptures. See, for example, a gilt-silver figure of Buddha Shakyamuni originally in the Pan-Asian Collection and personal collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth and now in a private collection, illustrated by M. Rhie and R. Thurman in Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet – Expanded Edition, New York, 2000, p. 471, no. 227. See also a related gilt-bronze figure of Buddha Shakyamuni, 43.8 cm high, dated 14
th
-15
th
century, at Christie’s New York, 12 September 2018, lot 358.
The present figure and the examples cited above
share the same pinched waist, muscular upper body, treatment of the drapery, and serene facial expression that reveal the influence of the Nepalese sculptural style. Indeed, the Nepalese style was prevalent throughout much of the Himalayas in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Newaris, the traditional inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley, were the master bronze casters of the period, and their services were patronized far and wide, including at the Imperial workshops of the Yuan dynasty in Beijing.
Literature comparison:
Compare a near identical gilt copper alloy figure of Buddha, 19 cm high, in the World Museum, Liverpool, accession number 56.27.39.
Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Bonhams Hong Kong, 2 October 2018, lot 37
Price: HKD 312,500 or approx.
EUR 42,500
converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A gilt copper alloy figure of Shakyamuni Buddha, Tibet, circa 15th century
Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling, manner of casting, and gilding, with similar facial features and expression. The wear to the gilding showing the coppery bronze beneath is also similar. Note the similar size (21.2 cm) as well as the beaded and incised decoration to the robe.
Seated in dhayanasana on a double lotus base with beaded rims, wearing an intricately executed patchwork robe, highlighted with incised decoration and gathering in subtly modeled folds at the ankles. The serene face with downcast eyes below gently arched eyebrows centered by an urna, his slender bow-shaped lips forming a gentle smile, flanked by slit pendulous lobes. The hair arranged in rows of tight curls over a high domed ushnisha topped by a bud-shaped finial.
Provenance
: From a private bourgeois family collection in Paris, France.
Condition
: Very good condition with minor wear, casting irregularities, small nicks, light scratches, tiny dings, rubbing and minor losses to gilt, small areas of verdigris. Unsealed.
Weight: 1.7 kg
Dimensions: Height 19.2 cm
While many images of the Buddha
cast in Tibet depict him wearing a diaphanous and unadorned sanghati, earlier Nepalese models have the Buddha garbed in patchwork robes, which was then carried over into some Tibetan sculptures. See, for example, a gilt-silver figure of Buddha Shakyamuni originally in the Pan-Asian Collection and personal collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth and now in a private collection, illustrated by M. Rhie and R. Thurman in Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet – Expanded Edition, New York, 2000, p. 471, no. 227. See also a related gilt-bronze figure of Buddha Shakyamuni, 43.8 cm high, dated 14
th
-15
th
century, at Christie’s New York, 12 September 2018, lot 358.
The present figure and the examples cited above
share the same pinched waist, muscular upper body, treatment of the drapery, and serene facial expression that reveal the influence of the Nepalese sculptural style. Indeed, the Nepalese style was prevalent throughout much of the Himalayas in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Newaris, the traditional inhabitants of the Kathmandu Valley, were the master bronze casters of the period, and their services were patronized far and wide, including at the Imperial workshops of the Yuan dynasty in Beijing.
Literature comparison:
Compare a near identical gilt copper alloy figure of Buddha, 19 cm high, in the World Museum, Liverpool, accession number 56.27.39.
Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Bonhams Hong Kong, 2 October 2018, lot 37
Price: HKD 312,500 or approx.
EUR 42,500
converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A gilt copper alloy figure of Shakyamuni Buddha, Tibet, circa 15th century
Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling, manner of casting, and gilding, with similar facial features and expression. The wear to the gilding showing the coppery bronze beneath is also similar. Note the similar size (21.2 cm) as well as the beaded and incised decoration to the robe.