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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION
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A GILT-LACQUERED FIGURE OF AVALOKITSHVARA Professor Abraham Herschel Bober (1915-1988), better known as
SIMHANADA Harry Bober, was a prominent American art historian specializing
Ming Dynasty in European Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, art, and
Seated on the back of a recumbent lion and supported by an architecture. He completed his doctoral degree at New York
elaborate lotus base, the left hand holding a cintamani and the right University's Fine Arts Graduate Center (now the Institute of Fine Arts)
raised in greeting, both hands holding the tips of lotus blossoms in 1949, before teaching at Harvard University (1951-1954), and
framing the shoulders and supporting a book and a blossom returning to the Institute of Fine Arts in 1954 where he taught for
flanked by trailing sashes, the elaborate garments and jeweled chest the remainder of his career. In 1964, Bober became the university's
completed by the richly embellished crown gracing the smiling features first Avalon Foundation Professor of the Humanities. In addition to
and downcast eyes. publishing widely in his field, he was a founding member and first
19 1/4in (48.9cm) high secretary (1956-1959) of the International Center for Medieval Art,
for which he also helped launch its journal, Gesta. In 1975, Bober
$8,000 - 12,000 curated and wrote the catalogue for The Passover: An Exhibition at
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Over the course of his life, he built an
明 金漆獅吼觀音像 art collection with particular strength in Medieval art, part of which he
lent to the Metropolitan Museum's 1968 exhibition Medieval Art from
Provenance: Private Collections.
Christie's, New York, 2 June 1986, lot 132
Collection of Professor Harry Bober, thence by descent

來源：
紐約佳士得拍賣行，1986 年 6 月 2 日，拍品編號 132
Harry Bober 教授舊藏，後於家族內傳承
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