Page 51 - Christie's July 9th 2020 Hong Kong Buddhist Art Under Empire

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTION
SOLD TO BENEFIT MENTAL HEALTH CHARITIES IN ASIA
亞洲私人珍藏 — 有關收益將捐贈予亞洲精神健康慈善機構

2714
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF ROLPE DORJE 清乾隆戊戌年 (1778)
INCISED QIANLONG WUXU CYCLICAL MARK CORRESPONDING TO 鎏金銅三世章嘉呼圖克圖若必多吉像
1778 AND OF THE PERIOD
The Lama is seated in dhyanasana on a double-lotus base, 「大清乾隆戊戌敬成」刻款
wearing a monastic robe with incised foliate hem, his right
hand in vitarkamudra, and the left palm facing upwards 來源
holding a separately cast kalasa, his face showing a benevolent 瑞典私人珍藏
expression with a small congenital protrusion to the lower 納高，2008 年 5 月 17 日，拍品 129 號
right cheek. By each of his arms is a lotus stem, with a sword 右手結說法印，左手結禪定印，持一甘露寶瓶。右腮旁凸起。雙足結跏
emerging from the flower on the right side, and a book on his 趺坐於蓮花座上。兩臂旁各有一蓮莖，右肩蓮瓣置寶劍，左肩蓮瓣置經
left. The back of the base is incised with an eleven-syllable 書。座後方刻兩行橫款，上為 11 個音節烏金體藏文款，可譯成：「向
Tibetan line rendered in Uchen script transliterated as skyabs 章嘉呼圖克圖若必多吉致敬」，下為「大清乾隆戊戌敬成」楷書款。鏨
mgon lcang skya rol ba’i rdor je la na ma, ‘Pay Homage to 刻精美，鎏金厚重。
Supreme Protector Changkya Rolpe Dorje’, above an eight-
character Qianlong wuxu cyclical presentation mark. 章嘉·若必多吉為第三世章嘉呼圖克圖 (1717-1786)。章嘉為清代黃教
6 ⅝ in. (16.5 cm.), box 四大活佛系統之一。若必多吉負責內蒙、山西、北京等地宗教事務，並
為乾隆皇帝的上師。他十分博學，精通漢、滿、蒙、藏四種文字，曾奉
HK$150,000-250,000 US$20,000-32,000 乾隆之命將《甘珠爾》譯為滿文及蒙文。比較首都博物館藏一尊鎏金銅
三世章嘉像，所持手印相同，但寶瓶已失（圖一）。另參考北京故宮博
PROVENANCE
A Swedish private collection 物院藏一幅 1787 年完成的三世章嘉唐卡，手印及持寶瓶的形象與此亦
Sold at Nagel, 17 May 2008, lot 129 同。
Rolpe Dorje (1717-1786) was the Third Changkya Hutuktu of the
Gelugpa sect, and the principal Tibetan Buddhist teacher in the
Qianlong Court. A learned scholar fluent in Chinese, Mongolian,
Manchu and Tibetan, he oversaw the translation of the Kangyur into
Manchu and Tibetan. Compare a gilt-bronze figure of Rolpe Dorje
seated on a square cushion with hands held in the same mudra but
missing the kalasa in the Capital Museum, Beijing (fig. 1). Refer also
to a painted thangka of Rolpe Dorje in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor in 1787 where the Lama is
shown holding the same mudra with a white kalasa in his left palm.

fig.1 Collection of the Capital Museum, Beijing
圖一 北京首都博物館藏品

48