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A MAGNIFICENT INSCRIBED GILT-BRONZE 東魏武定二年（544年） 銅鎏金蓮華手觀音
VOTIVE FIGURE OF PADMAPANI, EASTERN 立像
WEI DYNASTY, DATED WUDING 2ND YEAR,
CORRESPONDING TO 544 銘文：
the splayed right side and reverse of the plinth with an 武定二年十一月廿日故記上曲陽縣人郭政歎造像一區
inscription dated to the twentieth day of the eleventh month
of the second year of Wuding (in accordance with 544), 來源
lacquer stand, Japanese wood box (5) 佐藤玄々（1888-1963）收藏
Height 6⅝ in., 16.8 cm 坂本五郎（1923-2016）收藏
香港蘇富比2016年10月5日，編號3212
PROVENANCE
展覽
Collection of Sato Gengen (1888-1963).
Collection of Sakamoto Gorō (1923-2016). 《Reflection and Enlightenment: Chinese Buddhist Gilt
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5th October 2016, lot 3212. Bronzes from the Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection》
，休士頓美術館，休士頓，2017-2018年
EXHIBITED
文獻
Reflection and Enlightenment: Chinese Buddhist Gilt Bronzes
from the Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection, Museum of Beatrice Chan，〈Reflection and Enlightenment: Chinese
Fine Arts, Houston, 2017-2018. Buddhist Gilt Bronzes from the Jane and Leopold Swergold
Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston〉，
LITERATURE 《Arts of Asia》，2018年1至2月，頁58-65
Beatrice Chan, ‘Reflection and Enlightenment: Chinese
Buddhist Gilt Bronzes from the Jane and Leopold Swergold
Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’, Arts of
Asia, January/February 2018, pp 58-65.
$ 300,000-500,000

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