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120 A LARGE AND RARE WHITE MARBLE CARVING OF A BODHISATTVA
TANG DYNASTY
唐 大理石雕菩薩立像

beautifully carved in the round, standing in contrapposto with a basket held in the proper right hand, the body lavishly
adorned with beaded necklaces in scalloped tiers and jeweled pendants, an elaborate multi-strand necklace harness crossed
over the sensual, rounded belly and looped to either side, pendent over the arms, the lower section of the necklace hanging
just above the ankles and centered by a floriform pendant, the dhoti ribbon-tied at the waist beneath a chain belt, hanging
in folds cascading from the contours of the legs, the head with a five-pointed diadem, all supported on a lotus base, further
raised on a later stone lotus base with four mythical creatures supported by a square plinth (2)

Height overall 37 in., 94 cm
$ 600,000-800,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Ralph King (1855-1926). Ralph King (1855-1926) 收藏
Cleveland Museum of Art, from 1915. 克利夫蘭藝術博物館，自1915年起
William H. Wolff, New York, circa 1965. William H. Wolff，紐約，約1965年
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏
EXHIBITED 展覽
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Inaugural 《The Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of the Inaugural
Exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Exhibition》，克利夫蘭藝術博物館，克利夫蘭，1916年，頁172，
1916, p. 172, no. 32, ill. pl. 315. 編號32，圖版315
出版
LITERATURE
‘A Stone Statue of Guanyin’, The Bulletin of the Cleveland 〈A Stone Statue of Guanyin〉，《The Bulletin of the
Museum of Art, vol. 3 (November 1915), p. 3. Cleveland Museum of Art》，期3（1915年11月），頁3
William H. Wolff Yearbook of Far Eastern Art, New York, 《William H. Wolff Yearbook of Far Eastern Art》，紐
1965. 約，1965年

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