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331 A WHITE MARBLE FIGURE OF ‘PENSIVE’

MAITREYA
NORTHERN QI DYNASTY

sensitively carved in the round, the deity seated in meditation
against a truncated tree, with the proper right leg pendent over
the seat with the left leg crossed over the knee, the right hand
resting on the left foot and the other raised towards the face,
likely in a gesture of contemplation, the sublimely peaceful face
crowned with a rounded diadem, a large, bowed torque adorning
the chest, wearing characteristically styled garments carved
as if clinging to the skin, the gently draping sashes and linear
cascading folds falling about the body, with a wood stand and
Japanese box (4)
Height 9⅜ in., 23.8 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Sakamoto Gorō (1923-2016), acquired in the 1950s
or 1960s.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8th October 2013, lot 114.
北齊 大理石雕彌勒佛坐像

來源
坂本五郎收藏（1923-2016），得於1950或1960年代
香港蘇富比2013年10月8日，編號114

$ 50,000-70,000