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A VERY RARE IMPERIAL PALE GREEN JADE FIGURE OF BUDDHA
17th/18th century
Seated in dhyanasana, with both hands in a meditational mudra and
holding a small Buddha within a shrine, the flowing robes with long
sleeves layered over a dhoti and draped elegantly over the lotus base,
the face with peaceful expression, the earlobes long, beneath a head
of tightly-coiled curls with prominent ushnisa, the stone of mottled pale
green tone.
20cm (8in) high.
£30,000 - 50,000
CNY270,000 - 450,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十七/十八世紀 御製青白玉雕佛像

Provenance: Christie’s South Kensington, 9 November 2012, lot 1281

Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer
Exhibition, London, 2013, no.89.

來源：佳士得南肯辛頓，2012年11月9日，拍品編號1281

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2013年，
編號89

The present lot demonstrates the Imperial interest in Buddhist art in the
most favoured Chinese medium of jade. Carved with exceptional skill and
care, undoubtedly impressive but still exhibiting intimacy and meditative
calm, it could have graced the personal rooms or an Imperial altar in one
of the palaces.

Buddhism flourished during the Qing dynasty, as the early Manchu
sympathies with Mongolian Buddhism (prior to their conquest of China)
expanded to also embrace Tibetan Lamaism. The reigns of the three
great Qing emperors, Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, in particular,
witnessed a great resurgence of Tibetan Buddhist patronage. Not
merely for the sake of political expediency, Qianlong took an enthusiastic
personal interest in the religion, and fostered the devotions of his mother,
the empress Xiaoshen, with lavish commissions of Buddhist sculptures
and paintings for occasions such as her birthday.

Compare with a very similar jade figure of Buddha in the Qing Court
Collection, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace
Museum: Jade, 8, Beijing, 2011, p.270, no.234.

A larger related example of a white jade figure of Buddha, dated
18th/19th century, was sold at Christie’s New York, 26 March 2010, lot
1104. Also compare with a related Imperial pale green jade Buddha, 18th
century, which was sold at Bonhams London, 8 November 2012, lot 3.

Image courtesy of the Palace Museum, Beijing
For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
136 | BONHAMS please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.