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A ROCK CRYSTAL FIGURE OF BUDDHA, AYUTTHAYA, CIRCA 14TH-15TH CENTURY
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2024年12月17日 开拍
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A ROCK CRYSTAL FIGURE OF BUDDHA, AYUTTHAYA, CIRCA 14TH-15TH CENTURY

Seated in dhyanasana on an elevated, double lotus base, with his right hand lowered in bhumisparsha mudra and the left resting in his lap. He is wearing a diaphanous sanghati draped over the left shoulder. His face is neatly detailed with almond-shaped eyes, a broad nose, and full lips forming a calm smile, the hair neatly piled over the domed ushinisha with a crystal inlay.

Provenance: The collection of The Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. István Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe.
Condition: Good condition with extensive wear, commensurate with age. Natural imperfections including fissures and hairlines, chips, losses, nicks, scratches, and inclusions. Remnants of pigment.

Weight: 1,482 g (excl. stand), 6,701 g (incl. stand)
Dimensions: Height 17.6 (excl. stand), 32 cm (incl. stand)

Rock-crystal images of Buddha similar to this were created from the late fifteenth century in the workshops of Hot, a town in Thailand. Buddhist texts frequently refer to a list of seven precious substances (sapta-ratna), of which crystal is an example. Images of crystal were therefore suitable as donations to monasteries. Crystal is not only precious, but is also a Buddhist metaphor for enlightened states of awareness. These states include nirvana and emptiness (shunyata), both of which are described in Buddhist texts as “unobstructed” in the same way that crystal offers no obstruction to the passage of light.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 30 June 2020, lot 6060
Price: HKD 40,000 or approx. EUR 5,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A rock crystal figure of seated Buddha, Ayutthaya, 14th-15th century
Expert remark: Note the size (14.9 cm).

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