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A VERY RARE IMPERIAL GILT-BRONZE 明永樂/宣德 御製鎏金銅菩薩像
FIGURE OF BODHISATTVA
來源
YONGLE-XUANDE PERIOD (1403-1435) Garnett Von Stackelberg女男爵
香港佳士得，2006年5月30日，拍品1542號
The figure is cast seated on a lotus base in a variant of the royal ease Dr. Robert R. Bigler，蘇黎世

posture, rajalilasana, with the left leg bent horizontally and right 著錄
Robert R. Bigler，《Art and Faith at the Crossroads: Tibeto-
leg bent vertically, the body turned to the left with both hands Chinese Buddhist Images and Ritual Implements from the 12th to
the 15th Century》，蘇黎世，2013年，封面（圖一）及頁
held together in anjali mudra, a gesture of offering and veneration, 84-85，圖版31號

the facial features are finely detailed with lips indented to provide 此拍品隨附2013年蘇黎世出版Robert R. Bigler著的《Art and Faith at
the Crossroads: Tibeto-Chinese Buddhist Images and Ritual Implements
a smiling expression, crowned with an elaborate diadem before a from the 12th to the 15th Century》一本。

high topknot, adorned with a complex network of beaded jewels

falling about the bare torso and over the dhoti finely detailed with

florettes. Accompanied by a copy of Art and Faith at the Crossroads:

Tibeto-Chinese Buddhist Images and Ritual Implements from the 12th to

the 15th Century by Robert R. Bigler, Zurich, 2013.

5 º in. (13.3 cm.) high (2)

HK$2,400,000-3,500,000 US$320,000-450,000

PROVENANCE

Estate of Baroness Garnett Von Stackelberg
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1542
Dr. Robert R. Bigler, Zurich

LITERATURE

Robert R. Bigler, Art and Faith at the Crossroads: Tibeto-Chinese
Buddhist Images and Ritual Implements from the 12th to the 15th
Century, Zurich, 2013, front cover (fig. 1) and pp. 84-5, no. 31

fig. 1 29
圖一