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A RARE GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF 明天順六年（1462） 漆金銅釋迦牟尼佛坐像
BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI 「大明天順六年造」楷書刻款
INCISED TIANSHUN 6TH YEAR MARK CORRESPONDING TO 1462
AND OF THE PERIOD 來源
The figure is seated in dhyanasana on a double lotus base, Robert Biegler，瑞士，1996 年
with his right hand in bhumisparsamudra, his left hand
in dhyanamudra, wearing a softly pleated robe draped over 納高，2012 年 5 月 10 日，拍品 1139 號
the left shoulder and falling in rounded folds on the base, the 右手結觸地印，左手結定印，雙足結跏趺坐於蓮花座上。蓮座為半月狀
serene face is framed by long pendulous ears with vertical slits 束腰形式，座前上方陰刻「大明天順六年造」款， 座前下沿陰刻「十
and hair arranged in rows of tight whorls surmounted by a 尊釋迦佛像」款，座後下沿陰刻「善人王銘施妙秀」款，座底邊沿陰刻
domed usnisa. There are four incised inscriptions on the base: a 「九」字。
seven-character mark inscription on the top in the front reading
Da Ming Tianshun liunian zao, ‘Made in the sixth year of the
Tianshun period of the Great Ming’; a five-character inscription
below the lotus petals in the front reading shizun Shijiafo, ‘ten
Buddha Shakyamuni’; a seven-character inscription below the
petals on the back reading shanren Wang Ming shi miaoxiu,
‘dedicated by Wang Ming’; a single character inscription on the
underside of the base reading jiu, ‘nine’.
13 ⅝ in. (34.1 cm.) high, box
HK$150,000-200,000 US$20,000-26,000
PROVENANCE
Robert Biegler, Switzerland, 1996
Sold at Nagel, 10 May 2012, lot 1139

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