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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A MAGNIFICENT AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT GILT-BRONZE LITERATURE:
FIGURE OF GUANYIN Tch'ou To-yi, Bronze Antiques de la Chine apparentant a C.T. Loo et Cie, Paris
DALI KINGDOM, LATE 11TH-EARLY 12TH CENTURY and Brussels, 1924, pl. 39-4.
Chinese Art Treasures, Vol. IV, Series A, Institute of Chinese Culture, Taiwan,
The bodhisattva is shown standing with both hands slightly raised with palms
1961, pl. 20.
up, and holding in the proper left hand an ambrosia bottle (kundika). He wears
a dhoti gathered by a sash around the waist and an abundance of jewelry,
including armlets, bracelets, anklets, earrings, and an elaborate multi-strand 私人珍藏
necklace, as well as a shawl draped over the shoulders and a long scarf laid 大理國 十一世紀末/十二世紀初 銅鎏金觀音立像
across the raised arms and falling on either side of the exposed bare feet.
The face is cast with fine features below the tall foliate crown centered by a 來源:
figure of Amitabha Buddha seated amidst vaporous clouds, while the hair is 盧芹齋, 紐約, 1924年前後
arranged in a tall coiffure atop the head and with long tresses cascading over
Grace Rainey Rogers (1867-1943)珍藏, 格林威治, 康涅狄格州
the shoulders.
Grace Rainey Rogers舊藏; Parke-Bernet藝廊, 1943年11月18-19日, 拍品編
22Ω in. (57.1 cm.) high, oak stand
號285
盧芹齋, 紐約或Frank Caro, 紐約
$2,000,000-3,000,000
亞瑟 M. 塞克勒珍藏
PROVENANCE:
於1982年得自上述藏家
C. T. Loo & Co., New York, circa 1924.
Grace Rainey Rogers (1867-1943) Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut. 展覽:
Collection of the Late Grace Rainey Rogers; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., 18-19 洛杉磯, 洛杉磯郡美術館, 《Chinese Art Galleries: Stone Age Through
November 1943, lot 285. Modern Times》, 1998年6月3日-2009年
C.T. Loo & Co., New York or Frank Caro, New York.
Arthur M. Sackler Collections. 借展: 伊薩卡, 紐約, Herbert F. Johnson藝術館, 康奈爾大學, 2011-2014年
Acquired from the above in 1982. 出版:
Tch'ou To-yi, 《Bronze Antiques de la Chine apparentant a C.T. Loo et
EXHIBITED:
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Chinese Art Galleries: Stone Cie》, 巴黎及布魯塞爾, 1924年, 圖版39-4
Age Through Modern Times, 3 June 1998-2009. 《文物精華》, 卷四, 中國文化研究所, 台灣, 1961年, 圖版20
On loan: Ithaca, NY, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University,
2011-2014.

The present figure illustrated by Tch’ou To-yi in Bronze Antiques de la Chine apparentant a C.T. Loo et Cie, Paris and Brussels, 1924, pl. 39-4.
本拍品載錄於Tch’ou To-yi, 《Bronze Antiques de la Chine apparentant a C.T. Loo et Cie》, 巴黎及布魯塞爾, 1924年, 圖版39-4
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