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STATUE DE BODHISATTVA EN PORCELAINE BRUNE
REHAUSSEE D'OR
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME-XIXEME SIECLE
Il est représenté à genoux sur un socle lotiforme, les mains relevées à
hauteur de son torse dans un geste d'ofrande. Il est paré de bijoux et
vêtu d'un dhoti. Son visage est empreint de sérénité. Ses cheveux sont
coifés en chignon et ceints d'une tiare.
Hauteur: 29,8 cm. (11¾ in.)
€60,000-80,000 US$67,000-89,000
£52,000-69,000

PROVENANCE:
American private collection, acquired in Hong Kong in the 1950s, and
thence by descent within the family.
Christie's New York, 22-23 March 2012, lot 2124.
Property of a Southeast Asian collector
A GILT-DECORATED BROWN-GLAZED FIGURE OF A
BODHISATTVA
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
清十八/十九世紀 紫金釉描金彩供養菩薩
來源：
美國私人舊藏，于1950年代購自香港，后家族傳承
紐約佳士得，2012年3月22-23日，拍品2124號
東南亞藏家珍藏

This unusual iconographic pose, with both arms raised in a gesture of
ofering, is extremely rare among Buddhist images of the Qing period.
The inspiration of this unusual kneeling posture is modeled on Ming
dynasty, Xuande period, gilt-bronze. Compare the Ming gilt-bronze
kneeling bodhisattva in the Berti Aschmann Foundation, Museum
Reitberg, Zurich, illustrated in On the Path to Enlightenment, 1995, p.
122, no. 72, which is slightly smaller at 21 cm. high.

A nearly identical fgure dated to the Qianlong period is illustrated
by I.L. Legeza, A Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Malcolm
MacDonald Collection of Chinese Ceramics, London, 1972, p. 79,
no. 384. Three related polychrome fgures of seated Sakyamuni,
each with varied hand gestures, are illustrated in Monarchy and its
Buddhist Way: Tibetan-Buddhist Ritual Implements, National Palace
Museum, Taipei, 1999, no. 23; and a smaller seated Buddha (15.9 cm.
high) in the collection of the Nanjing Museum, is illustrated in Qing
Imperial Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 72. Compare, also, a similar
fgure executed in gilt-bronze and champlevé enamel dated to the
Qianlong period, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by S.
W. Bushell, Chinese Art, London, 1924, vol. II, fg. 94.