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A BRONZE VOTIVE FIGURE OF SHAKYAMUNI 北魏太和八年（484年）
BUDDHA AND PRABHUTARATNA BUDDHA 銅釋迦多寶二佛並坐像
NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY, DATED 8TH YEAR
OF THE TAIHE PERIOD, CORRESPONDING TO 來源
484 AD. 於上世紀80年代得自香港Joseph Chan
私人收藏
cast with two Buddhas side by side seated in dhyanasana on
a tapering four-legged plinth, each deity framed by an incised
flame-shaped mandorla picked out with striated flaming
motifs, the reverse of the mandorla decorated with a seated
figure of Buddha within a foliate scroll-shaped border, the sides
and reverse of the plinth incised with a dedicatory inscription
dated to the sixth month of the eighth year of the Taihe period
of the Northern Wei (484 AD)
Height 15 cm, 5⅞ in.
PROVENANCE
Acquired from Joseph Chan, Hong Kong, in the late 1980s.
Private Collection.
‡ £ 30,000-50,000
other view
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