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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND LARGE SILVER
AND COPPER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF
ELEVEN-HEADED AVALOKITESHVARA

TIBET, 15TH CENTURY

The multi-armed deity stands in a graceful posture with hips swayed, with
the principle hands joined together in anjalimudra in front of the chest. He is
clad in an ankle-length dhoti with cascading folds and adorned with various
jewellry, some inset with turquoise and others copper-inlaid. The eleven faces
are arranged in tiers, some peaceful and others wrathful, with silver-inlaid
eyes and teeth and copper-inlaid lips, each with remains of cold gold on the
face and polychromy in the hair and surmounted by a foliate tiara inset with
semi-precious stones.

47Ω in. (120.7 cm.) high

PROVENANCE
The Property of a Distinguished Asian Collector

EXHIBITED
The Art Institute of Chicago and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington D.C., Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure, 5 April-17
August 2003 and 18 October 2003-11 January 2004
Fine Art Asia, Hong Kong, 3-7 October 2011
Asian Art in London, 3-12 November 2011
Royal Academy of Arts, London, Bronze, 15 September-9 December 2012
On loan to the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, 19 January-2
September 2015

LITERATURE
P. Pal, Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure, Chicago, 2003, p. 226, cat. no. 147.
D. Ekserdjian (ed.), Bronze, London, 2012, pp. 169 and 266, cat. no. 77

西藏 十五世紀 銅十一面觀音立像

觀音立姿,微傾,姿態頎秀,前兩臂於前胸合十。下身繫長裙,飾以波浪紋
衣褶,上有瓔珞,鑲嵌綠松石或紅銅。十一面堆疊而上,有慈悲相亦有憤怒
相,眼睛、牙齒以銀鑲嵌,嘴唇則鑲紅銅。每一面上有泥金,髮上有彩繪,
各帶寶冠。

來源
亞洲私人珍藏

展覽
芝加哥藝術學院及賽克勒美術館聯合協辦,《Himalayas: An Aesthetic
Adventure》,2003年4月5-8月17日、2003年10月18日-2004年1月11日,
圖版圖錄147號
《典雅藝博》,香港,2011年10月3-7日
倫敦亞洲藝術週,2011年11月12日
英國皇家藝術學院,《Bronze》,倫敦,2012年9 月15 日至12 月9 日
借展予美國德州Kimbell Art Museum,2015年1月19-9月2日

著錄
P. Pal,《Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure》,芝加哥,2003年,226
頁,圖錄編號147
D. Ekserdjian 編,《Bronze》,倫敦,2012年,169 及266頁,圖錄編號77

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