Asian Art I - 17 Nov 2015

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A RARE CHINESE GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF MAITREYA SIX CHARACTER XUANDE MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1426-35...

明宣德 銅鎏金彌勒菩薩坐像

£150,000 - £250,000

A RARE CHINESE GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF MAITREYA

SIX CHARACTER XUANDE MARK AND OF THE PERIOD 1426-35

Seated in dhyanasana and raised on a double lotus base, the hands joined before his chest, wearing draped robes and with an elaborate arrangement of jewellery, the earlobes elongated by large circular earrings, the high chignon cold painted in blue and adorned by a tall headdress, with a benevolent expression, the central urna protruding from the forehead, the baseplate engraved with a double vajra, 18.1cm.

Provenance: purchased from Spink & Son in 1966, and thence by descent.

Cf. Sotheby's, 7th October 2010, 2144; see also The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Buddhist Statues of Tibet, p.230, no.219.

明宣德 銅鎏金彌勒菩薩坐像
《大明宣德年施》款
來源:1966年由Adrian Maynard購於Spink and Son
彌勒菩薩為廣受佛教信徒供奉的重要尊神之一,普度天下信眾,被稱之為未來佛。彌勒菩薩面相飽滿,臉型方正,垂目俯視,高鼻薄唇,略含笑意。頭戴五葉寶冠精美細緻,束菩薩髻,頂綴髻寶,耳後繒帶優雅揚起緊貼肩部。雙手施轉法輪印,袒上身,腰系寶帶,腰部纖細,微扭身姿,姿態優美。身配瓔珞、耳環、環釧,下著長裙,裙褶流暢如波紋在全跏趺坐的雙腿之上隨意散開,寬大的裙緣披落落座之上。下承標準永宣式樣仰覆蓮座,上下沿細密精細的連珠紋,蓮瓣飽滿,尖端上卷雕卷雲紋,座前陰刻“大明宣德年施”六字楷書款。現存的明永樂宣德時期鎏金銅造像中,彌勒像相對較少見,此尊造像製作精巧很好地詮釋了宮廷造像優雅的美學修養及高超的藝術水平,是永宣造像中難得的精品。香港蘇富比于2010年10月7日在《明心菩提-Stephen Markbreiter伉儷重要明代御製劉金佛珍藏》專場中曾出售過類似永樂時期造像(編號2144)。北京故宮博物院也藏有一尊製作工藝相仿的宣德金剛薩捶菩薩坐像,并著錄于《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集:藏傳佛教造像》230頁,圖版219。

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