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fig. 1 fig. 2
Dry lacquer figure of Amitayus, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period Gilt dry lacquer standing figure of a bodhisattva, Qing dynasty
The Avery Brundage Collection After: Christopher Bruckner, Chinese Imperial Patronage: Treasures from
© Asian Art Museum, San Francisco (accession no. B60S16+) Temples and Palaces, vol. II, London, 2005, cat. no. 47
圖一 圖二
清乾隆 乾漆無量壽佛坐像 清 夾紵金漆菩薩立像
布倫戴奇舊藏 出處：Christopher Bruckner，《Chinese Imperial Patronage: Treasures from
© 舊金山亞洲藝術博物館藏品（編號B60S16+） Temples and Palaces》，卷2，倫敦，2005年，編號47

The distinctive Sino-Tibeto-Mongolian style of the current Beijing. It shares identical treatment of a number of features,
bronze sculpture can also be found on dry lacquer wood including the elaborate chignon, the elegance of the tresses of
sculptures created for the temples for the Imperial Mountain hair falling on each shoulder and the distinctive jewel settings.
Resort of Chengde. The facial features and jewellery settings
Other Kangxi gilt-bronze figures sharing similar high quality
can be seen on the monumental figure of Avalokiteshvara bronze craftsmanship, but with more typical Chinese
at Puning Temple, illustrated in Buddhist Art from Rehol.
decorative style include a smaller gilt-bronze figure of four-
Tibetan Buddhist Images and Ritual Objects from the Qing armed Manjushri, also dated to the Kangxi reign and still
Dynasty Summer Palace at Chengde, The Chang Foundation
at Chengde, illustrated in Buddhist Art from Rehol. Tibetan
and Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei and Kaohsiung,
Buddhist Images and Ritual Objects from the Qing Dynasty
1999, p. 28. The overall form and style of the current bronze Summer Palace at Chengde, Taipei, 1999, cat. no. 19. See also
Amitayus is also closely related to a gilt-lacquer wood figure several examples from the large set of figures of Amitayus
of Amitayus in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
created in the Kangxi period, characterised by heavy high
(http://asianart.emuseum.com/view/objects/asitem/ quality casting and rich fire-gilding. These include a figure sold
items$0040:11419), considered to have come from Chengde, in our London rooms, 10th July 1973, lot 100, and published in
illustrated by Terese Tse Bartholomew, ‘Sino-Tibetan Art of the Ulrich von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981,
Qianlong Period from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco’,
pl. 152b, where he suggests that these figures originally were
Orientations, vol. 22, no. 6, June 1991, fig. 5 (fig. 1).
part of one and the same group which may have comprised as
Compare also the distinctive stylistic elements on a life-size many as 108 examples. Other examples from the set include
gilt dry-lacquer standing figure of a bodhisattva illustrated in one sold in our Paris rooms, 18th December 2012, lot 104, and
Christopher Bruckner, Chinese Imperial Patronage: Treasures another from the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller,
from Temples and Palaces, vol. II, London, 2005, cat. no. 47 sold at Christie’s New York, 5th April 2018, lot 982.
(fig. 2), and now in the collection of the Capital Museum,