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10 juin 2019

Statuette de Maitreya en bronze doré, Dynastie Ming, XVIIe siècle

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Lot 27. Statuette de Maitreya en bronze doré, Dynastie Ming, XVIIe siècle; 39,8 cm, 15 5/8  in. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 EURLot Sold 77,500 EUR. Courtesy Sotheby's.

dans le style udayana, représenté debout, la main droite et gauche en abhayamudra et varadamudra, la divinité au visage serein et méditatif, les oreilles aux longs lobes, les cheveux  soigneusement coiffés en un haut chignon orné de l’ushnisha, en outre vêtu d'une longue robe aux larges plis ondoyants et prononcés comportant de larges ouvertures aux manches, le vêtement épousant les contours doucement arrondis de son ventre et de ses jambes, terminé par un ourlet évasé découvrant ses pieds nus, socle en bois (2).

Provenance: Adela Ocampo de Heimendal (1845-1931), Paris and Buenos Aires.
Madeleine Ocampo de Casares-Lumb, Buenos Aires.
Alberto Casares Ocampo (1928-1998), Buenos Aires.
Thence in the family by descent.

ExhibitedMuseo Nacional de Arte Oriental, Buenos Aires, no. 470 (according to label). 

Note: The present figure is stylistically related to the well-known large gilt-bronze figure of Maitreya in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated 486AD, illustrated in Denise Patry Leidy, Notes on a Buddha Maitreya sculpture dated 486 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oriental Art Magazine, vol. LV, no. 3, 2005/2006, pp. 22-32, and a massive gilt-bronze figure of Maitreya dated to the Yuan or early Ming period, sold in Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3rd October 2017, lot 3135. The webbed hands and the stylised undulating folds of the robe are typical of early Ming figures such as demonstrated by the Maitreya in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as the Ming buddha sold in Sotheby's Hong Kong. Compare another gilt-bronze figure of Maitreya of Ming date and similar style, sold Sotheby's New York, 16th September 2009, lot 126.  

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Buddha Maitreya (Mile fo)dated 486, Northern Wei dynasty (386–534). Gilt bronze with traces of pigment; piece-mold cast. H. 55 1/4 in. (140.3 cm); W. 24 1/2 in. (62.2 cm); D. 19 1/4 in. (48.9 cm). John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1926, 26.123. © 2000–2019 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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A magnificent and monumental gilt-bronze standing figure of Maitreya, Yuan dynasty – Hongwu period; 116.8 cm, 46 in. Sold for 24,100,000 HKD Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3rd October 2017, lot 3135. Courtesy Sotheby's

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A rare gilt-bronze standing figure of Maitreya, Ming dynasty; height 19 3/4 in., 50.2 cm. Sold for 74,500 USD at Sotheby's New York, 16th September 2009, lot 126. Courtesy Sotheby's

Sotheby's. Arts d'Asie, Paris, 11 Juin 2019
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