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明永樂
A RARE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF AMITAYUS
YONGLE INCISED SIX-CHARACTER PRESENTATION MARK
AND OF THE PERIOD (1403-1424)
鎏金銅無量壽佛坐像

The deity is seated majestically with legs crossed in dhyanasana, the hands in
dhyana mudra, held above the thighs and holding a kalasa. The rounded face is
finely modelled with an urna between the arched eyebrows with eyes downcast
providing a benevolent expression, the hair swept back in a topknot behind an
elaborate crown with short sashes tied behind the ears, wearing a shawl over
the broad shoulders revealing a bare torso festooned with complex beaded
jewellery chains, the long dhoti secured by a belt decorated with rosettes around
the narrow waist. The front of the beaded double-lotus base is incised with a six-
character presentation mark, Daming Yongle Nianshi, ‘Bestowed in the Yongle
period of the Great Ming Dynasty’.
「大明永樂年施」刻款 7 in. (18 cm) high
HK$2,800,000-4,000,000 US$360,000-510,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired in San Francisco in the 1990s
來源
1990 年代於美國三藩市入藏

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款識

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