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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT JAPANESE COLLECTION
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          A VERY RARE BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF BUDDHA          重要日本私́珍藏
          NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY (AD 386-534)                   ٫魏ǎ銅ζঙ像
          The Buddha is shown seated in dhyanasana on a lotus base, wearing a simple
          robe that is wrapped around the body and draped over the left shoulder. His   Ϝ源
          face is sensitively cast with a serene, meditative expression with half-closed   重要日本私́珍藏
 Ն藏於    年ע
 後家族ҷ承
          eyes framed by large, pendulous ear lobes below the curled hair. The reverse is   展覽
          cast with two tabs for attachment of a mandorla.
                                                              東̺
 Ǚ日本金銅ṷǚ
     年  月    日
 編號
          7u in. (18.8 cm.) high
                                                              香川⇑
 香川⇑文٪會館
Ǚ日本美術の源流  ۵代中४美術ǚ
     年
                                                              ૯阪
 ૯阪市⒤美術館
 ǙՍ朝の美術ǚ
     年  月  日   月 日
          $60,000-80,000
                                                              東̺
 ૯和文華館
 Ǚṁ別展：中४の金銅ṷǚ
     年  月 日   月 日
          PROVENANCE:
          Important private Japanese collection, prior to 1955, and thence by descent   ֨ḛ
          within the family.                                  喜龍仁
 Ǘ$IJOFTF 4DVMQUVSF GSPN UIF 'JGUI UP UIF 'PVSUFFOUI $FOUVSZǘ
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          EXHIBITED:
                                                              東̺४⒤博ḵ館
 Ǘ日本金銅ṷ圖錄ǘ
 東̺
     年
 編號
          Tokyo, Tokyo National Museum, Gilt Bronze Buddhist Statues in Japan,
          1 - 30 November 1955, no. 4.                        松原˕郎
 Ǘ中४ṷ教雕ח史研②ǘ
 東̺
     年
 編號   B
 C
          Kagawa Prefecture, Kagawa Prefectural Cultural Hall, Ancient Chinese Art   Ǘ日本美術の源流：۵代中४美術ǘ
 香川⇑
     年
 編號'
          - The Origin of Japanese Art, 1968.
          Osaka, The Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Art of the Six Dynasties,    ૯阪市⒤美術館
 ǗՍ朝の美術ǘ
 ૯阪
     年
 編號
          10 October - 9 November 1975.                       東̺४⒤博ḵ館
 Ǘṁ別展圖錄：金銅ṷ g 中४ 朝鮮 日本ǘ
     年
 編號
          Tokyo, The Museum Yamato Bunkakan, Chinese Gilt Bronze Statues of   頁  及
          Buddhism, 2 October - 8 November 1992.              ૯和文華
 Ǘṁ別展：中४ⅲ金銅ṷǘ
 東̺
     年
 編號
                                                              金⁵
 Ǘ海外及港台藏歷代ζ像 珍品紀年圖鑒ǘ
 山西
     年
 頁
          LITERATURE:
          Osvald Sirén, Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century, vol. 1,
          London, 1925, pl. 279 A.
          Tokyo National Museum, Gilt Bronze Buddhist Statues in Japan, Tokyo, 1955, no. 4.
          Matsubara Saburo, Research on the History of Chinese Buddhist Sculpture,
          Tokyo, 1961, no. 32 a, b.
          Ancient Chinese Art - The Origin of Japanese Art, Kagawa, 1968, F9.
          Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Chinese Art from Six Dynasties, Osaka, 1975,
          no. 3-160.
          Tokyo National Museum, Gilt Bronze Buddhist Statues - China, Korea, Japan,
          1988, no. 13, p.17 and p.85.
          Yamato Bunkakan, Chinese Gilt Bronze Statues of Buddhism, Tokyo, 1992, no. 16.
          Jin Shen in Hai wai ji Gong Yai cang li dai fo xiang: zhen pin ji nian cu
          jian (Catalogue of Treasures of Buddhist Sculpture in Overseas Collections
          including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Shanxi, 2007, p. 420.
          The style of the current figure, with its narrow head, sloping eyes, and flame-
          like folds on the robes, recall the figures of Buddha found at the Yungang
          Buddhist grottos, which also date to the 5th century. A similar figure in gilt
          bronze, dated to AD 477 of the Northern Wei period, in the Nitta Collection,
          was included in the National Palace Museum exhibition, The Crucible of
          Compassion and Wisdom, Taipei, 1987, p. 154 and cover. See, also, the similar
          gilt-bronze seated figure of Buddha, dated to the second half of the fifth
          century, illustrated by L. Sickman, “Monsters and Elegance: Nine Centuries
          of Chinese Sculpture,” Apollo, March 1973, p. 241, no. 3, and a stylistically
          similar Buddhist shrine, dated to AD 494 of the Northern Wei Dynasty, pp.
          241-42, no. 4.










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