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THE PROPERTY OF GOTŌ SHINSHUDŌ

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A RARE AND IMPORTANT GILT-
BRONZE STANDING FIGURE OF
BUDDHA

KOREA, UNITED SILLA PERIOD (AD 668-935),
PROBABLY 8TH CENTURY

Likely representing the Medicine Buddha, Yaka Yeorae, the fgure is fnely cast
standing on a waisted lotus base raised on an integral octagonal plinth with
open sides, with right hand raised in abhayamudra and the lowered left hand
holding a fattened globular object, likely representing a medicine bowl or jar,
and wearing a long diaphanous robe that falls in pronounced U-shaped folds
down the front of the body from where it is draped below the neck and over the
left shoulder. The hair is dressed in small curls that also cover the ushnisha.
There is an opening in the back of the head and another oval opening in the
back of the body.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

$80,000-120,000

PROVENANCE

Mori Katsuji Collection, by 1917.
Mayuyama & Co., Tokyo, prior to 1983.

EXHIBITED

Nara, Nara National Museum, Imperial Envoys to Tang China: Early Japanese
Encounters with Continental Culture, 2010.

LITERATURE

Government-General of Chosen, Chosen Koseki Zufu (Relic of Joseon
Peninsula) vol. 5, March, 1917.
Matsubara Saburo, Kankoku kondobutsu Kenkyu (Study of Korean gilt bronze
Buddhist fgures), 1985, p. 96 a and b.
Nara National Museum, Imperial Envoys to Tang China: Early Japanese
Encounters with Continental Culture, Nara, 2010, pl. 215.

朝鮮 統一新羅時代 鎏金銅佛立像

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