拍品 1382
1382
AN UNUSUAL GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
AN UNUSUAL GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA

YUAN/EARLY MING DYNASTY, 13TH-15TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL GILT-LACQUERED BRONZE FIGURE OF SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA
YUAN/EARLY MING DYNASTY, 13TH-15TH CENTURY
Portrayed as an ascetic, leaning forward with hands resting on his right knee, dressed in loose robes incised with foliate scroll and left open at the chest, his face with serene, downcast expression and the details of his moustache and beard finely rendered between the pendulous ears and beneath the tight whorls of hair surmounted by the usnisa, one edge of the base inscribed Qiantang Chen Yide zao (made by Chen Yide of Qiantang)
8¼ in. (20.9 cm.) high

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The present depiction of Buddha as an ascetic shows him prior to his enlightenment, before discovering the Middle Path. Two Yuan dynasty sculptures of the Buddha as an ascetic in a similar pose, in wood and dry lacquer, respectively, are illustrated in Comprehensive Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Buddhist Statues in Overseas Collection, vol. 7, Beijing, 2005, p. 1420, in The Detroit Institute of Arts; and pp. 1418-19, in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. A similar figure of the ascetic Buddha, although in bronze, is illustrated by W. Cox in Chinese Buddhist Bronzes, Tokyo, 1967, no. 122, where it is dated to the Ming dynasty.