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fig. 1 Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei fig. 2 Robert Ellsworth Collection, sold at Christie’s New York,
圖一 國立故宮博物院藏品 20 March 2015, Lot 759
圖二 安思遠舊藏 紐約佳士得 2015 年 3 月 20 日 拍品 759 號

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Votive gilt-bronze figures of the ‘Teaching Buddha,’ with right hand 此像右手結無畏印，左手置於膝上，為八世紀流行的制式。底部的衣擺
raised in variants of vitarkamudra, and left hand resting on the knee, 鑄造細致，可比較一極為相似的藏於台北國立故宮博物院造像（12 公分
became extremely popular from the turn of the eighth century. 高），見《金銅佛造像特展圖錄》，台北，1987 年，頁 173，圖版編號
The delicately cast draped base demonstrated the style of period, 76（圖一）。另有兩件相關造像藏於上海博物館，見松原三郎著《中国
see an almost identical figure in comparable style in the National 仏教彫刻史論：唐五代宋及道教造像》，第三冊，東京，1995 年，圖版
Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in The Crucible of Compassion
and Wisdom: Special Exhibition Catalogue of the Buddhist Bronzes 編號 720 Ａ及Ｂ。另有一類似但尺寸較小（8 公分）造像為安思遠舊藏，
from the Nitta Group Collection at the National Palace Museum, 後於 2015 年 3 月 20 日經紐約佳士得拍賣，拍品 759 號（圖二）。
Taipei, 1987, p. 173, no 76 (fig. 1). Two closely related gilt-bronze
figures in the collection of the Shanghai Museum are illustrated
in S. Matsubara, Chugoku Bukkyo Chokokushi Ron (The History
of Chinese Buddhist Sculpture): Tang, Five Dynasties, Sung and
Taoism Sculpture, vol. 3, Tokyo, 1995, pl. 720 A and B. Compare,
also, a similar but smaller gilt-bronze figure (8 cm. high) from the
Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth, New York, sold at Christie’s New
York, 20 March 2015, lot 759 (fig. 2).

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