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A COPPER-ALLOY COPPER-INLAID FIGURE OF A SAKYA LAMA
15th/16th century
Seated on a double-lotus throne, the hands raised in mudra in front of
the chest, the robes sweeping around the body in rhythmic folds and
fluttering across the top of the base, the hem incised with a scrolling
brocade, the face of serene expression beneath finely-incised hair.
11cm (4 3/8in) high.
£6,000 - 8,000
CNY54,000 - 72,000
十五/十六世紀 薩迦喇嘛銅像

Published and Illustrated: O.Hoare, Portraits of the Masters:
Bronze Sculptures of the Tibetan Buddhist Lineages, Part II, private
publication, p.55, no.29.

出版著錄：O.Hoare，《Portraits of the Masters: Bronze Sculptures of
the Tibetan Buddhist Lineages》，卷二，頁55，編號29

The Sakya School has a strong tradition of sculpted portraiture and
encouraged individually-cast portraits of the great Sakya masters,
commissioned by themselves, their disciples, or spiritual disciples of
later centuries. The present lot is similar to another group of uninscribed
Sakya imagery, illustrated in the first volume of Portraits of the Masters,
Chicago, 2003, pls.79-82. Traditionally, those that have a youthful cast,
such as the present lot, have suggested identification with Chogyal
Pakpa (1235-1280) who achieved dazzling heights in scholarship,
practice and career before dying at the age of 45. Compare with a
9 related copper-alloy figure of a Sakya Lama, Tibet, 15th century, which
was sold at Bonhams New York, 14 March 2017, lot 3280.

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A LARGE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA
Ming Dynasty
The benevolent figure finely cast seated in dhyanasana with the right
hand reaching down towards the ground in bhumisparsha mudra,
the left hand held gently in the lap in dhyana mudra, the face in a
meditative expression with downcast eyes flanked by pendulous
earlobes, crowned by tightly-curled hair rising to a high chignon,
seated cross-legged with both hands held in dhyana mudra, wearing
a long layered robe decorated on the hems with delicate foliate scrolls,
open at the chest revealing a wan emblem.
31cm (12 2/8in) high.

£6,000 - 8,000
CNY54,000 - 72,000

明 銅鎏金佛坐像

The present figure may represent Buddha Shakyamuni, one of the
most-widely-represented subjects in Buddhist art. Modelled in the
earth-touching gesture or bhumisparsha mudra, the Buddha recalls
the moment of his Enlightenment, in which he called upon the earth as
his witness of his battle against the temptations and attacks of Mara
and his demons. The serene countenance conveyed by the gentle
facial features, with the eyes depicted half closed in meditation and
the long earlobes symbolising long life, follows the standard rules for
the depiction of Buddha to ensure the deity was shown embodying
maximum power. Compare with a related gilt-bronze figure of Buddha
Shakyamuni, 16th/17th century, in the Chang Foundation, illustrated in
Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993, pp.32-33, no.9. A related
gilt-bronze figure of the Medicine Buddha, late Ming dynasty, was sold
at Bonhams London, 17 May 2018, lot 127.
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