A VERY RARE BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF BUDDHA

Lot 734
25.03.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 734 | A VERY RARE BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF BUDDHA
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$ 60 000 – 80 000
A VERY RARE BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF BUDDHA

NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY (AD 386-534)

The Buddha is shown seated in dhyanasana on a lotus base, wearing a simple robe that is wrapped around the body and draped over the left shoulder. His face is sensitively cast with a serene, meditative expression with half-closed eyes framed by large, pendulous ear lobes below the curled hair. The reverse is cast with two tabs for attachment of a mandorla.

7 3⁄8 in. (18.8 cm.) high







Provenance

Important private Japanese collection, prior to 1955, and thence by descent within the family.





Literature

Osvald Sirén, Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century, vol. 1, London, 1925, pl. 279 A.

Tokyo National Museum, Gilt Bronze Buddhist Statues in Japan, Tokyo, 1955, no. 4.

Matsubara Saburo, Research on the History of Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, Tokyo, 1961, no. 32 a, b.

Ancient Chinese Art - The Origin of Japanese Art, Kagawa, 1968, F9.

Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Chinese Art from Six Dynasties, Osaka, 1975, no. 3-160.

Tokyo National Museum, Gilt Bronze Buddhist Statues - China, Korea, Japan, 1988, no. 13, p.17 and p.85.

Yamato Bunkakan, Chinese Gilt Bronze Statues of Buddhism, Tokyo, 1992, no. 16.

Jin Shen in Hai wai ji Gong Yai cang li dai fo xiang: zhen pin ji nian cu jian (Catalogue of Treasures of Buddhist Sculpture in Overseas Collections including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Shanxi, 2007, p. 420.





Exhibited

Tokyo, Tokyo National Museum, Gilt Bronze Buddhist Statues in Japan, 1 - 30 November 1955, no. 4.

Kagawa Prefecture, Kagawa Prefectural Cultural Hall, Ancient Chinese Art - The Origin of Japanese Art, 1968.

Osaka, The Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Art of the Six Dynasties, 10 October - 9 November 1975.

Tokyo, The Museum Yamato Bunkakan, Chinese Gilt Bronze Statues of Buddhism, 2 October - 8 November 1992.





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