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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE 斯里蘭卡 阿努拉德普勒王朝時期 十世紀 鎏金銅
COLLECTION 合金佛坐像
A GILT-COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF SEATED
BUDDHA
SRI LANKA, LATE ANURADHAPURA PERIOD (C.
300-1000), 10TH CENTURY
The Buddha seated in meditation with legs folded one on
top of the other in virasana and hands resting in his lap in
dhyana mudra, wearing a monk’s robe sanghati and a jewel
(replaced) in the setting amid the flames above the head
(siraspata)
10.8 cm, 4¼ in.
Statue de Bouddha assis en alliage de cuivre doré,
Sri Lanka, fin de l’époque Anuradhapura (c. 300-1000),
Xe siècle

‡ 20 000-30 000€

compare the squared end of the robe hem folded over 比較本尊佛像折疊在右肩和胸前末端呈方形的長袍下擺，並肉
the right shoulder and chest, and the large jewel setting 髻火焰飾上所嵌大寶石及一尊在泰國十世紀斯里蘭卡青銅佛
in the siraspata with a tenth century Sri Lankan bronze 像，圖見於Ulrich von Schroeder，斯里蘭卡佛教雕塑，香港，
Buddha found in Thailand, illustrated in Ulrich von 1990，頁204，圖版54B。另見頁205，圖版54D-E數例亭可馬里
Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures of Sri Lanka, Hong Kong 區十世紀佛像。
1990, p. 204, pl. 54B, and other tenth century examples from
the Trincomalee district, ibid., p. 205, pls. 54D-E.

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