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A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF TSONGKHAPA 銅鎏金宗喀巴像
TIBET, 16TH/17TH CENTURY 西藏，十六/十七世紀
A Tibetan inscription at the back of the base, translates, “I prostrate 底坐背面刻有藏文銘文，譯為：「吾叩拜勝者宗喀巴」。
to victorious royal ba Tsong kha pa.” 喜馬拉雅藝術資源24009號
Himalayan Art Resource item no.24009 高15.5釐米（6 1/8英吋）
15.5 cm (6 1/8 in.) high
250,000 - 350,000 港元
HK$250,000 - 350,000
此尊宗喀巴（1357-1419）像爽朗不凡，高髮線及嘴旁深溝皆為常見
於此大聖人畫像之標誌，熱情洋溢之銘文令其身份再無異議。宗喀
This handsome bronze of Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) details his 巴雙肩旁的寶劍與經文將他塑造為文殊菩薩轉世。此作品優於一尊
receding hairline and deep grooves around the mouth, distinctive 相似的銅鎏金宗喀巴像，售於蘇富比，巴黎，2015年12月16日，拍
features of the great sage’s portrait. Its impassioned inscription further 品58A。
serves to identify him. Tsongkhapa’s iconography of a sword and sutra
emerging from lotuses by his shoulders revers him as a manifestation 來源
of Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Perfected Wisdom. The present lot 倫佩茨拍賣行，2008年12月12日，拍品180號
compares favorably to a closely related gilt bronze of the same subject 佳士得，紐約，2016年9月13日，拍品219號
sold at Sotheby’s, Paris, 16 December 2015, lot 58A.

Provenance
Lempertz, 12 December 2008, lot 180
Christie’s, New York, 13 September 2016, lot 219

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