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22 avril 2020

A gilt-bronze figure of Avalokitesvara, Sui-Tang dynasty (581-907)

 

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Lot 24. A gilt-bronze figure of Avalokitesvara, Sui-Tang dynasty (581-907); 9.5cm., 3 3/4 inEstimate 3,000 — 4,000 GBP. Lot sold 3,750 GBP (5,227 EUR). Photo courtesy Sotheby's.

cast standing with left knee faintly bent and body twisting in elegant tribhanga, dressed in long skirts and draping scarves knotted intricately over the belly while leaving the torso bare, the left hand lowered grasping the long stems of lotus-bud and leaf, the right arm raised holding a flaming disc-like jewel, the face with a serene expression surmounted by an elaborate headdress, all supported on a circular lotus base raised on stylised foliage, fitted wood stand and Japanese wood box.

NoteThis bronze bodhisattva, cast with elegant swaying robes, was once part of a votive altar group; see a group with similarly modelled bodhisattva flanking Avalokitesvara, sold in our New York rooms, 21st September 2007, lot 9.

A pair of bronze bodhisattva similarly standing on leaves, in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, is illustrated in Ji Chong Jian, The Buddhist Bronzes, Taipei, 1994, pl. 114; another in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, is illustrated in Hai-wai Yi-Chen. Chinese Art in Overseas Collections. Buddhist Sculpture, Taipei, 1990, pl. 96; and a third is published in Kindo butsu [Bronze Buddhist Sculpture], Tokyo, 2004, pl. 26.

Sotheby's. The Soul of Japanese Aesthetics – The Tsuneichi Inoue Collection, London, 13 may 2015

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