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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTOR
瑞士私人珍藏
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A RARE AND FINELY CAST GILT-BRONZE 明宣德 鎏金銅金剛蕯埵坐像 「大明宣德年施」刻款
FIGURE OF VAJRASATTVA
來源:
XUANDE INCISED SIX-CHARACTER PRESENTATION MARK AND OF 由現任藏家於1990年代購自蘇黎世Berti Aschmann（傳）
THE PERIOD (1403-1425)
The figure is seated majestically in dhyanasana on a double-lotus base, Berti Aschmann女士是一位常駐於蘇黎世的著名佛教藝術藏家
holding a vajra held in the right hand and a ghana in the left, wearing 及學者。她將其珍藏贈予蘇黎世Rietberg博物館後，自1995年
a long flowing dhoti tied at waist, an elaborate necklace across the 起，即成為該館東南亞藝術及中國佛教藝術的核心館藏。
bare chest, armbands and bracelets. The rounded face is finely cast
with a compassionate expression, flanked by pendulous ears wearing
floral medallion earrings, under ‘an eight-leaf diadem’. The lotus
base is incised with the six-character reign mark, Da Ming Xuande
nian shi, ‘Bestowed in the Great Ming Xuande period’.
10 in. (26.5 cm.) high
HK$4,000,000-7,000,000 US$520,000-900,000
P R O V E NAN C E :
Acquired by the current owner from the collection of Berti
Aschmann, Zurich in the 1990s, by repute

Berti Aschmann is a renowned Buddhist art collector and scholar
based in Zurich. She donated her entire collection to the Rietberg
Museum, Zurich, where it has been on permanent display since 1995
and forms the core of the Southeast Asian and Chinese Buddhist
collection of the museum.

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