A LARGE GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF MANJUSRI - photo 1
A LARGE GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF MANJUSRI - photo 2

A LARGE GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF MANJUSRI

Starting price
HKD 2 000 000
Auction dateClassic
30.11.2023 11:15UTC +08:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Event location
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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ID 1076173
Lot 2884 | A LARGE GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF MANJUSRI
A LARGE GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF MANJUSRI

FIVE DYNASTIES PERIOD - SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-13TH CENTURY

17 in. (43 cm.) high





Provenance

A Japanese private collection, acquired prior to 1990s



Literature

This rare and unusually large figure depicts Bodhisattva Manjusri seated on a striding lion and stylistically can be dated to the Five Dynasty or Song period. Manjusri is the embodiment of wisdom and is often depicted holding a sword, which symbolises the destruction of ignorance, but in this period sometimes the sword is substituted by a ruyi. Here the sword/ruyi is cast separately and now lost. Compare a small bronze example of Manjusri (fig. 1) in the Cleveland Museum of Art dated to the Five Dynasty. There is also a large stucco figure of Manjusri (fig. 2) in the Dafoguangsi temple in Wutaishan.



Exhibited

Christie’s Hong Kong, The Plum Ripens: Buddhist Art Along the Chinese Silk Road, 25-30 May 2023, Catalogue, no. 7
Historical era:Five Dynasties
Auction house category:All other types of objects
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