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PROPERTY FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ART
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A LARGE POLYCHROME WOOD FIGURE OF GUANYIN This finely carved figure retains all of the sense of robust power and majesty
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644) seen in figures of Tang, Song and Jin dynasty date. The folds of the drapery
The figure is shown seated in padmasana with the right hand resting in in the shawl, scarves and dhoti worn by this figure are reminiscent of that
the figure's lap, wearing loose, voluminous robes. The face has a serene seen on painted wood figures of Song date, but the small, pursed mouth,
expression, with heavy-lidded eyes, and the hair is tied up in a tall chignon. the slender nose and oblique eyes are more similar to those found in Ming
painted sculpture. The figure’s pierced ears suggest that he may have had
45º in. (115 cm.) high separately-made jewelry and the ridge of the hair suggests that he would
have worn a separately-made crown, likely made of metal.
$40,000-60,000
A figure of a seated Guanyin, dated Ming dynasty and displaying similar
PROVENANCE: stylistic elements, is in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
Edward Wells, New York. and is illustrated by Denise Patry Leidy and Donna Strahan in Wisdom
Indianapolis Museum of Art, acquired 20 October, 1936.
Embodied: Chinese and Daoist Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, 2010, pp. 156-7, no. 40. Like the present figure, the Met figure has
EXHIBITED:
The John Herron Art Institute (currently the Indianapolis Museum of Art), 1935. similarly rendered hair encircled with a ridge where a crown would have been
placed, as well as gesso decoration along the edges of the robes.
LITERATURE:
Star, "Example of Ancient Chinese Sculpture Added to Herron Institute
Collection," Indianapolis, 8 November 1936.
印第安納波利斯藝術博物館藏, 拍賣收益將惠及其藝術品購藏基金
明 彩繪木觀音坐像
來源:
Edward Wells 珍藏, 紐約。
印第安納波利斯藝術博物館, 1936年10月20日入藏。
展覽:
The John Herron Art Institute (印第安納波利斯藝術博物館前身), 1935年。
出版:
Star, 《Example of Ancient Chinese Sculpture Added to Herron Institute
Collection》, 印第安納波利斯, 1936年11月8日。