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64 SOTHEBY’S NEW YORK 10 SEPTEMBER 2019 BODIES OF INFINITE LIGHT

318 A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF GUANDI

QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY

the heroic figure poised on a rectangular seat with the hands
resting on the thighs, wearing a cloth cap above a knitted brow,
the sleeves of the robe billowing out from beneath elaborate
armor detailed with beast-masks incised at the epaulets and
cast in relief at the belly, leafy scrolls incised at the hem, the
back of the armor finely decorated with a lotus scroll, all raised
on a square plinth with scrolled corners, the base sealed with a
copper plate inscribed with a vishvavajra
Height 6⅞ in., 17.3 cm
PROVENANCE
The Chang Foundation Collection.
LITERATURE
Jintongfo zaoxiang tulu/Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taipei,
1993, pl. 85.

Guan Yu, also called Guan Di and Guan Gong, is regarded as
a hero from the period of the warring Three Kingdoms, as a
Daoist deity, and as a Buddhist guardian. In Buddhism the
guardian is worshipped as Jialan Zunzhe, and is traditionally
located at the left lower corner of a Chinese altar, opposite
the bodhisattva Skanda, or Weituo.
清十八 / 十九世紀 銅鎏金關帝坐像

來源
鴻禧美術館收藏
出版
《金銅佛造像圖錄》，台北，1993年，圖版85

$ 15,000-20,000