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9/2/2020 Important Chinese Art | Sotheby's

來源
Jakob Goldschmidt (1882-1955) 收藏，得於約1920年代至1930年代，此後家族傳承
紐約蘇富比2004年3月23日，編號626
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦

Catalogue Note
The present figure exemplifies the refinement of Buddhist sculpture in the late Northern Qi (550-577) and early Sui (581-605)
dynasties.

This sculpture bears a strong correlation to Northern Qi and early Sui sculptures in both stone and gilt-bronze. A strikingly similar
stone figure of Avalokiteshvara of the same scale, with the same attributes and style of dress, and standing on a base carved with
devotees and lions, in the collection of Jan Kleijkamp and Ellis Monroe, was exhibited at five museums, including the H. M. de
Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, and published in Alfred Salmony, Chinese Sculpture: Han (206 B. C. – A. D. 22) to Sung
(A. D. 960-1279), New York, 1944, pl. XVI. Another stone sculpture of this type, formerly in the collection of the Louvre Museum,
Paris, is published in Osvald Sirén, Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century, New York, 1925, pl. 268B.

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