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A CIZHOU PAINTED ‘TIGER’ PILLOW A CARVED LIMESTONE BUDDHIST VOTIVE 唐 石灰岩雕釋迦牟尼幢台
NORTHERN SONG - JIN DYNASTY STELE
TANG DYNASTY 來源：
Japanese wood box
30 cm rotating wood stand 梅原龍三郎（1888-1986年）收藏
30 by 20.5 by 15.5 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Umehara Ryuzaburo (1888-1986). PROVENANCE
Collection of Umehara Ryuzaburo (1888-1986).
HK$ 10,000-15,000
US$ 1,300-1,950 HK$ 180,000-250,000
US$ 23,200-32,200
327 北宋至金 磁州窰虎紋枕
This rare limestone rectangular stele, finely carved with
來源： sensuous naturalistic detail of each of the fours sides with
梅原龍三郎（1888-1986年）收藏 a sculpture of a Buddha and bodhisattva, bears testimony
to the development of Buddhist devotional art in China.
It served as a vehicle for its fervent commissioner to
accumulate merits and record their acts of devotion. With
the dynamic growth of Buddhism in the fifth century, various
regional devotional societies were formed across China
which prompted unforeseen innovation in the production of
religious art. Votive stone steles emerged as a new genre in
the Buddhist sculptural repertoire that differentiates from
monumental cave temple carvings.

Compare another Tang dynasty limestone stele included in
the exhibition Ancient Chinese Sculptural Treasures: Carvings
in Stone, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, 1998,
pl. 64. Despite of a slightly smaller size, it draws close
comparisons with the present piece in its composition,
rendering of the figures and their style of drapery within
the recessed niches, and the apsarases above in three-
328 dimensional relief.

A LARGE CARVED DUAN INKSTONE
QING DYNASTY
with a carved ‘dragon and phoenix’ wood cover, and a wood
stand reticulated with a ‘floral’ roundel
34 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Umehara Ryuzaburo (1888-1986).

HK$ 15,000-20,000
US$ 1,950-2,600

清 端石行龍太極紋大硯
來源：
梅原龍三郎（1888-1986年）收藏
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