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A RARE LARGE GILT-BRONZE VOTIVE FIGURE 北魏永平四年（511年）
OF PADMAPANI 鎏金銅蓮華手觀音立像
NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY, FOURTH YEAR OF
THE YONGPING PERIOD, CORRESPONDING TO 來源
511 AD Vicomte de Bragelogne，巴黎
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦
well cast standing in abhanga on a lotus pedestal base,
the left hand holding a stem and the other grasping a 展覽
flask, the slender body dressed with a diaphanous dhoti 《Ancient Chinese Bronzes and Gilt Bronzes from the
and long scarf draping over the shoulders and upper Wessen and Other Collections》, 埃斯卡納齊，
arms, the face with a pensive expression below hair 倫敦，1980年，編號23
gathered in a high chignon, against a mandorla festooned
with a circular halo with radiating lotus petals and swirling 出版
flames extending to the pointed tip, all supported on a 松原三郎，《中国佛教彫刻史論》，東京，1995年，
four-legged platform adorned with floral motifs, inscribed 卷1，圖版108a
to the back of the stand and continued to one side with a
partially decipherable dedicatory inscription, dated to the
fourth year of the Yongping period (511 AD)
Height 29 cm, 11⅜ in.
PROVENANCE
Vicomte de Bragelogne, Paris.
Eskenazi Ltd., London.
EXHIBITED
Ancient Chinese Bronzes and Gilt Bronzes from the Wessen
and Other Collections, Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1980, cat. no. 23.

LITERATURE
Saburo Matsubara, Chugoku Bukkyo Choukuku Shi Ron/
History of Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, Tokyo, 1995, vol. I,
pl. 108a.
‡ £ 150,000-250,000
HK$ 1,470,000-2,450,000 US$ 188,000-312,000

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