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~132 PROVENANCE:
IMPORTANTE STATUE DE BOUDDHA Previously from an important English private collection.
SHAKYAMUNI EN JADE CELADON PALE Christie's Hong Kong, 300 Years of Jade, 30 October 2000, lot 700.
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIEME-XVIIIEME SIECLE AN IMPORTANT PALE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF SEATED
Il est représenté assis en vajrasana, ses mains en dhyanamudra BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI
tenant un bol à aumône. Il est vêtu de longues robes CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
monastiques, son torse nu est paré de bijoux élaborés.
Son visage est méditatif, les yeux mi-clos sous les arcades 清十七/十八世紀 青白玉釋迦牟尼佛坐像
sourcilières arrondies et les lobes d'oreilles allongés. Ses 來源：
cheveux bouclés sont surmontés de l'ushnisha et ornés du 英國重要私人舊藏
ratna. 香港佳士得，2000年10月30日，拍品700號
Hauteur: 29,5 cm. (11¬ in.), socle
Buddhism fourished during the Qing dynasty, and was encouraged
€40,000-60,000 US$45,000-67,000
by the devotion of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors
£35,000-52,000
and their successors. As a result of its popularity, the production
of Buddhist statuary, ritual objects, vessels and other implements
became widespread, and a variety of materials were employed in their
manufacture. While jade was amongst these materials, such a large
fgure (29.5 cm.) depicting Buddha Shakyamuni appear to be very rare.
See a slightly smaller white jade Buddha (23.5 cm.) with very similar
features to the present example from the Stephen Junkunc, III
collection sold at Christie's New York, 26 March 2010, lot 1104. See
a smaller (13.6 cm.), white jade seated Buddha, dated to the mid-Qing
dynasty, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated
by Yang Boda in Chinese Jades Throughout the Ages, vol. 12, Hong
Kong, 1997, no. 103. Compare, also, a larger (21 cm.) seated white jade
fgure of Pindola, formerly in the Nott Collection, illustrated in Chinese
Jades in the Stanley Charles Nott Collection, West Palm Beach, 1942,
pl. XII, where it is dated to the Jiaqing period. A small jade Amitayus
(7.7 cm. high), is illustrated in Monarchy and Its Buddhist Way, Tibetan-
Buddhist Ritual Implements in the National Palace Museum, National
Palace Museum, Taiwan, 1999, no. 29. The National Museum fgure
is designed specifcally for placement within a turquoise inlaid stupa
which accounts for its smaller size. A celadon jade fgure of Sakyamuni,
holding a small stupa is illustrated in Treasures from Snow Mountains,
Gems of Tibetan Cultural Relics, Shanghai Museum, 2001, no. 37.

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