拍品专文
Previously sold in these Rooms, 29 October 1995, lot 647.
It is unusual to find examples cast with such an elaborate five-leafed diadem. For a similar headdress compare a seated Maitreya in the Nitta Collection included in the exhibition, The Crucible of Compassion and Wisdom, illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 214, no. 117. Although the headdress of the Nitta example is more stylised in comparison, the treatment of the variegated floral design along the base and the garment edges are comparable to the present example. Stylistically the floral depictions are closely related to those found on late Yuan and early Ming period porcelain.
The posture, drapery and proportions of the present example relate well to 14th and 15th century gilt-bronze figures, such as the example sold in these Rooms 30 October 1994, lot 389.
Cf. other related examples such as the gilt-bronze statue in the Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulterbesitz, Museum Fur Volkerkunde, Germany, as illustrated in Hai-Wai Yi-Chen, Chinese Art in Overseas Collections: Buddhist Sculpture II, p. 185, pl. 175.
(US$64,000-90,000)
It is unusual to find examples cast with such an elaborate five-leafed diadem. For a similar headdress compare a seated Maitreya in the Nitta Collection included in the exhibition, The Crucible of Compassion and Wisdom, illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 214, no. 117. Although the headdress of the Nitta example is more stylised in comparison, the treatment of the variegated floral design along the base and the garment edges are comparable to the present example. Stylistically the floral depictions are closely related to those found on late Yuan and early Ming period porcelain.
The posture, drapery and proportions of the present example relate well to 14th and 15th century gilt-bronze figures, such as the example sold in these Rooms 30 October 1994, lot 389.
Cf. other related examples such as the gilt-bronze statue in the Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulterbesitz, Museum Fur Volkerkunde, Germany, as illustrated in Hai-Wai Yi-Chen, Chinese Art in Overseas Collections: Buddhist Sculpture II, p. 185, pl. 175.
(US$64,000-90,000)