拍品 43
43
A GILT-BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF BUDDHA SAKYAMUNI
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 
A GILT-BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF BUDDHA SAKYAMUNI

YONGLE SIX-CHARACTER INSCRIBED MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1403-1425)

细节
A GILT-BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF BUDDHA SAKYAMUNI
Yongle six-character inscribed mark and of the period (1403-1425)
The figure finely cast seated in vajrasana on a rounded double lotus base, the hands in dhyana and bhumisparsamudra, wearing a softly pleated robe draped over the left shoulder and falling in rounded folds on the base, the eyes downcast, the long pendulous ears cut with vertical slits, and the hair arranged in rows of tight whorls surmounted by a domed usnisa
10 5/8in. (27cm.) high

拍品专文

Compare the very similar gilt-bronze figure of Sakyamuni, also with a Yongle mark but of slightly smaller size (22cm.), in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, acquired in 1959 and illustrated in Selected Gems of Cultural Relics; newly collected in the Palace Museum in the last fifty years, Beijing, 1999, p. 126, no. 163. See, also, the similar figure from the Victoria and Albert Museum, dated to the Ming dynasty illustrated in Fojiao Diaosu Mingpin Tulu (Images of Famous Buddhist Sculpture), Beijing, 1997, p. 175, no. 167.