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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT JAPANESE
COLLECTION
ⱷ735 Path of Chinese Buddhist Sculpture),Tokyo, 1995, vol. 1, pl. 296, where it is dated
A GILT-BRONZE HEAD OF BUDDHA 重要日本私人珍藏 Western Wei (AD 535-556), as it is by Jin Shen in Zhongguo lida; jinian foxiang
NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY (AD 386-535) 北魏 銅鎏金佛首 tudian (Illustrated Chinese Buddha Images through the Ages), Beijing, 1995,
The oval face is cast with a serene expression, 來源: p. 216, no. 158. Not only are the robes, scarves and necklace similar, but also
flanked by long pendulous ear lobes beneath the the shape and features of the face and the crown with trailing ribbons. Like the
hair neatly arranged in tight curls. 重要日本私人珍藏, 入藏於1968年前, current figure, the bodhisattva in the published group stands on a lotus base, but
後家族傳承 is surrounded by subsidiary figures, all raised on a stand with open sides that
1Ω in. (3.9 cm.) high, softwood stand, Japanese is inscribed with a dedicatory inscription by Kang Sheng dated to AD 539. A
wood box 展覽: similar gilt-bronze figure with nearly identical treatement of robes and scarves
香川県, 香川県文化會館, 「日本美術 was sold at Christie's New York, Treasures of the Noble Path: Early Buddhist Art
$8,000-12,000 の源流: 古代中國美術」, 1968年 from Japanese Collections, 14 September 2017, lot 812.
大阪, 大阪市立美術館, 「六朝の美
PROVENANCE: 術」, 1975年10月10日-11月9日
Important private Japanese collection, prior to 重要日本私́珍藏
1968, and thence by descent within the family. 愛知県美術館, 「Hidden 3000
Years – Asian Art Culture」, 4月17 ٫魏ǎ永安˕年 年
ǎ銅菩薩⒤像
EXHIBITED: 日-5月5日, 年份未知 Ϝ源
Kagawa Prefecture, Kagawa Prefectural
Cultural Hall, Ancient Chinese Art - The Origin of 出版: 重要日本私́珍藏
Ն藏於 年ע
後家族ҷ承
Japanese Art, 1968. 《日本美術の源流：古代中國美術》, 展覽
Osaka, The Osaka City Museum of Fine 香川県, 1968年, 編號F9 香川⇑
香川⇑文٪會館
Ǚ日本美術の源流 ۵代中४美術ǚ
年
Arts, Art of the Six Dynasties, 10 October- 9 大阪市立美術館, 《六朝の美術》, 大
November 1975. 阪, 1975年, 編號3-164 ૯阪
૯阪市⒤美術館
Ǚ中४ṷ教雕像ǚ
年 月 日 月 日
Aichi, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Hidden 東̺
૯和文華館
Ǚṁ別展：中४の金銅ṷǚ
年 月 日 月 日
3000 Years- Asian Art Culture, 17 April-5 May 愛知県美術館, 《Hidden 3000 ֨ḛ
(year unknown). Years – Asian Art Culture》, 年
份未知 美術研②所
Ǘ美術研②ǘ
年
圖Ḛ編號
LITERATURE: 松原˕郎
Ǘ中४ṷ教雕ח史研②ǘ
東̺
年
編號 $ 及圖Ḛ編號
頁
Ancient Chinese Art - The Origin of Japanese Art,
Kagawa, 1968, F9.
Osaka City Museum, Chinese Art from Six Ǘ日本美術の源流：۵代中४美術ǘ
香川⇑
年
編號'
dynasties,1975, no. 3-164. ૯阪市⒤美術館
Ǘ中४ṷ教雕像ǘ
૯阪
年
頁
編號
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Hidden 3000 和泉市久Л惣〦念美術館
ǗՍ朝时代の金銅ṷǘ
和泉市
年
編號
Years- Asian Art Culture. (year unknown)
૯和文華
Ǘṁ別展：中४ⅲ金銅ṷǘ
東̺
年
編號

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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT JAPANESE COLLECTION
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LITERATURE:
A BRONZE FIGURE OF A STANDING BODHISATTVA Bijutsu Kenkyu, Institute of Art Research, 1958, fig. 16.
NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY, DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO AD 530
Matsubara Saburo, Research on Chinese Buddhist Sculpture History, 1961, no.
The figure is shown standing on a lotus base, with the right hand holding a 80 C and fig. 101, p. 124.
section of the long, looped necklace gathered by a disk, and the left hand holding Ancient Chinese Art - The Origin of Japanese Art, Kagawa, 1968, F9.
the scarf draped over the left arm, while the ends of the robes and the scarves Osaka City Museum, Chinese Buddhist Sculptures, Osaka, 1984, p. 61, no. 89.
flare out to the sides. The face is cast with a gentle expression, and is framed by Kuboso Memorial Museum of Arts, Gilt Bronze Buddha in Six Dynasties, Izumi,
the ribbons that trail from the crown decorated with three globular 'jewels'. 1991, no. 91.
5æ in. (14.5 cm.) high, Japanese fitted zitan box Yamato Bunkakan, Chinese Gilt Bronze Statues of Buddhism, Tokyo, 1992, no. 29.
The treatment of the figure's robes and scarves, which flare outward in an
$10,000-15,000
animated fashion from the sides, is one of the distinctive styles seen during
PROVENANCE: the Northern Wei, Eastern Wei and Western Wei periods. A similar treatment
Important private Japanese collection, prior to 1994, and thence by descent of the robes, with flaring, wing-tipped drapery, can be seen on the figure
within the family. of a gilt-bronze luohan (14.6 cm. high) in the Fogg Museum, Cambridge,
illustrated by H. Munsterberg, Chinese Buddhist Bronzes, Vermont/Tokyo,
EXHIBITED: 1967, frontispiece, where it is dated Northern Wei dynasty. This depiction 736 (inscription)
Kagawa Prefecture, Kagawa Prefectural Cultural Hall, Ancient Chinese Art of the robes and scarves creates an abstract, linear pattern that obscures
- The Origin of Japanese Art, 1968. the body. The current figure is very similar to another bodhisattva which
Osaka City Museum, Chinese Buddhist Sculptures, 6 Oct - 11 Nov, 1984. forms the center of a complex votive group in the Art Institute of Chicago,
Tokyo, Yamato Bunkakan, Chinese Gilt Bronze Statues of Buddhism, 2 Oct - 8 illustrated by Matsubara Saburo in Chugoku Bukkyo Chokokushi ron (The
Nov, 1992.

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