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TWO WOOD FIGURES OF ANANDA AND KASYAPA 來源：英國倫敦古董商，Gerard Hawthorn Ltd. Oriental Art，2000年
Ming Dynasty or earlier
Each disciple standing on a lotus pedestal wearing long sleeved 出版著錄：英國倫敦，Gerard Hawthorn，《Two Thousand Years of
flowing robes wrapped in layers across the body, Ananda with a serene Chinese and Japanese Sculpture》，2000年，編號8
expression beneath a shaven head and flanked by pendulous ears, the
hands joined at the chest in nebina ghasso symbolising a sincere and Shakyamuni Buddha had ten major disciples but is usually depicted
firm heart, Kaspaya with hands raised and locked together in the kanjo- in Buddhist art and sculpture with just Ananda and Kasyapa beside
in mudra to accompany the ceremony of unction, the robes of both him. Kasyapa is perhaps the most famous of Shakyamuni’s disciples
figures detailed with fine fabric underneath a lacquered layer. and he accepted his master’s clothes after his death; while Ananda
30.5cm (12in) high. (2). was known and praised by the Buddha for his memory, erudition
and compassion. A large wood figure of a luohan, Song dynasty, in
£6,000 - 8,000 the National Museum of History, Taipei, bears a very similar fabric
CNY53,000 - 71,000 and lacquer cover to the wood as the present example, illustrated
in Chinese Buddhist Wooden Sculptures from the Sung and Yuan
Dynasties, Taipei, 1997, p.61. Another wood figure of a luohan, Song
明或更早 木雕阿難陀與迦葉羅漢像一組兩件 dynasty, is illustrated by R.Y.Lefebvre d’Argence, ed., Chinese, Korean,
and Japanese Sculpture: The Avery Brundage Collection,
Provenance: Gerard Hawthorn Ltd. Oriental Art, London, 2000. San Francisco, 1974, no.150.

Published and Illustrated: Gerard Hawthorn, Two Thousand Years A larger wood figure of a luohan, Song/Yuan dynasty, also from the
of Chinese and Japanese Sculpture, London, 2000, no.8. collection of Gerard Hawthorn, was sold at Bonhams New York,
19 March 2018, lot 8185.

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