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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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A PAINTED WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF BUDDHA Stylistically, the present fgure closely relates to a larger (81.3 cm.) limestone
TANG DYNASTY (AD 618-907) Buddha from Shaanxi province, with an inscription dating to AD 639,
illustrated by O. Sirén, Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth
The Buddha is shown seated in padmasana with right hand raised in abhaya
Century, vol. 2, Bangkok, 1998 ed., pl. 365. Both fgures are clad in simple
mudra, wearing layered robes falling in graceful folds around the body, the face
robes exposing the chest and are seated in padmasana on similarly draped
is carved with crisp features set in a gentle expression, and the hair and usnisa
pedestals with right hands in abahya mudra. Both fgures also share in
carved with curls, with traces of red, white, blue and green pigment.
common a broad face with crisply rendered features beneath the tight whorls
18Ω in. (47 cm.) high of hair and pronounced usnisha.
$80,000-120,000 Also compare a similar, though smaller (35 cm.), Tang dynasty marble fgure
of Buddha, posed in similar fashion on a draped pedestal base, illustrated in
Zui To no Bijutsu, Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 1976, p. 44, no. 3-42.
PROVENANCE
In the United States by 1978. 唐 彩繪石雕佛坐像
Fine Chinese Art from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Christie’s New York,
18 March 2009, lot 359.

(another view)

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