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New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 592

A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF MAITREYA , TANG DYNASTY
Estimate: 25,000 - 30,000 USD

A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF MAITREYA
TANG DYNASTY
唐 銅鎏金彌勒佛坐像

crisply cast, seated with the proper right hand raised in the fear-allaying abhaya mudra, the head and face beautifully rendered
with a peaceful countenance, the body dressed in generous robes secured around the waist and draped over the seat in
voluminous pleats and folds, the back of the head with an aperture for a mandorla, wood stand, Japanese wood box (5)

Height 4⅞ in., 12.4 cm

Literature
Saburo Matsubara, Chinese Buddhist Sculpture: A study based on bronze and stone statues other than works from cave
temples, Tokyo, 1966, pl. 236d.

出版
松原三郎，《中国仏教彫刻史研究》，東京，1966年，圖版236d

Catalogue Note
Compare similar gilt-bronze figures of seated Maitreya Buddha attributed to the Tang: one with a mandorla aperture cast to the
back of the body, preserved in the Sano Art Museum, Mishima, also illustrated in Saburo Matsubara, Chinese Buddhist Sculpture:
A study based on bronze and stone statues other than works from cave temples, Tokyo, 1966, pls 294b-c, and another with a high
pedestal base, illustrated in ibid, pl. 294a. Another similar figure from a Japanese private collection was exhibited in the Special

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