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A RARE LICCHAVI-REVIVAL-STYLE GILT- 蒙古 十七 / 十八世紀 鎏金銅離車毗式彌勒佛坐像
BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF MAITREYA 來源
MONGOLIA, 17TH-18TH CENTURY 紐約佳士得，2010 年 3 月 23 日，拍品 261 號
The figure is cast seated on a double-lotus base with a beaded rim, 本尊造像具有尼泊爾造像遺風，其手指、臉部細緻的處理方式，尤
holding a lotus and the kumbha, clad in a sheer dhoti, an antelope 其反應了離車毗王朝時期 (400-750) 造像之特色。風格近似的造像
skin draped over his shoulders, adorned with a beaded necklace 可比較 Nyingjei Lam 珍藏一例，見《The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet:
and large earrings, the hair pulled into a high chignon with locks
falling over the shoulders, secured with an elaborate festooned Buddhist Art in the Nyingjei Lam Collection》，香港，1999 年，頁 121，
headdress and centered by a tall stupa. 圖版 27 號；及紐約大都會博物館所藏一尊觀音像（圖一），典藏編號
8º in. (21 cm.) high 2015.500.4.22，目前於 253 號展廳展出。
HK$500,000-700,000 US$65,000-90,000

PROVENANCE
Sold at Christie’s New York, 23 March 2010, lot 261
The present figure represents a revival of earlier Nepalese
traditions, particularly that of the Licchavi period
(approximately AD 400-750). Other examples from this group
include a gilt-bronze figure of Maitreya Buddha, illustrated
by D. Weldon and J. Casey Singer, The Sculptural Heritage
of Tibet: Buddhist Art in the Nyingjei Lam Collection,
Hong Kong, 1999, p. 121, pl. 27, and a gilt-bronze figure of
Avalokiteshvara in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum
of Art (fig. 1), accession number: 2015.500.4.22, currently on
view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 253. Such works are
characterised by the sensitive treatment of the fingers and
facial features. The Licchavi prototypes for these works, such
as the large gilt-bronze figure of a seated Maitreya from the
collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth and sold at Christie’s
New York, 17 March 2015, lot 27, were prized throughout Tibet
and Mongolia, and must have inspired the artisans of the 17th
and 18th century in the creation of these new images.

fig. 1 Collection of The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York
圖一 大都會博物館藏品

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