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A POLYCHROME CARVED STONE STELE
NORTHERN WEI / NORTHERN QI DYNASTY
carved in high relief with Guanyin standing at the center
of a wide rectangular plinth, the Goddess of Compassion
framed by a tall petal-shaped mandorla and flanked at
either side by a haloed standing attendant, each of the three
figures positioned atop a lotus blossom, Guanyin dressed
in robes, a dhoti, and a lobed diadem with the head bowed
and the pendent left hand and raised right hand each holding
an object, the robed attendants with their heads bowed
and hands clasped at the chest within sleeves, traces of
red, black, and green pigment throughout, the reverse
unadorned, the base drilled and affixed to a wood stand (2)
Height 13⅞ in., 35.2 cm
PROVENANCE
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 11th September 1969, 247
lot 77.
J. T. Tai & Co., New York. A POLYCHROME LIMESTONE HEAD OF A
Sotheby’s New York, 14th September 2011, lot 307. CROWNED BODHISATTVA
An inscribed marble stele dated 551 of the same subject and LIAO DYNASTY
form, and of similar size, from the collection of Sakamoto
Gorō sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th October 2013, lot well carved with a serene countenance and a fleshy, round
137. face, crowned with a tall diadem with a repeating ruyi border
framing a central wan character above a blossoming lotus,
flanked by two trios of cintamani, the diadem picked out with
$ 15,000-20,000 applied red and blue pigment, mounted on a modern base
Height 13⅛ in., 33.3 cm
北魏 / 北齊 石雕觀音三尊像
PROVENANCE
245 來源 Collection of Monica Zajac de Dobry (d. 2019).
Parke-Bernet Galleries，紐約，1969年9月11日，編號77 Compare a limestone head of Avalokiteshvara, sold in these
戴潤齋，紐約 rooms, 16th September 2015, lot 428, with similar treatment
紐約蘇富比2011年9月14日，編號307 of the facial features, tresses, and crown proportions, and
another with a similar diadem centered by an om character,
sold in our London rooms, 30th October 1987, lot 244.
Stylistically the features and headdress of the present figure
246 relate to the painted clay sculptures of the Liao dynasty in
Lower Huayansi in Datong, Shanxi province, which are dated
PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED AMERICAN PRIVATE in accordance with 1038, see Zhongguo meishu quanji: Wudai
COLLECTION Song diaosu [Complete Series on Chinese Art. Sculpture:
A POLYCHROME STUCCO FRESCO FRAGMENT Five Dynasties and Song Sculpture], Beijing, vol. 5, 1988,
YUAN / MING DYNASTY pls 138-41.
the rectangular panel painted with three celestial maidens, $ 15,000-20,000
each adorned in flowing robes with their hair arranged in
elaborate chignons, two also wearing crowns, reserved on a 遼 石灰石雕加彩菩薩首像
ground of swirling waves, painted in polychrome pigments
highlighting the gilded ornamentation with gesso relief, 來源
framed
Height 32¾ in., 83.1 cm; Width 20⅝ in., 52.5 cm Monica Zajac de Dobry (2019年逝) 收藏
PROVENANCE
P. C. Lu & Sons, Hong Kong, 21st June 1984.
$ 15,000-25,000

元 / 明 灰泥彩繪天女圖壁畫殘部

來源
魯氏父子有限公司，香港，1984年6月21日

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