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A LIMESTONE HEAD OF A BODHISATTVA, LATE NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY
奥地利
04月11日 下午5点 开拍
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Expert authentication: Dr. Chang Qing has authenticated this lot, noting its stylistic similarities to Northern Wei Bodhisattva images found in Henan, Hebei, and Shandong provinces of Northern China. A notarized copy of Dr. Chang's expertise, dated April 17, 2021, in the State of New York, accompanies this lot. Dr. Chang holds a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Kansas and has held prestigious positions, including post-doctoral fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and senior research fellow at the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institute. He has conducted extensive research in China, participating in archaeological excavations at various historical sites. Dr. Chang is the author of several influential works, including Compassionate Beings in Metal and Stone: Chinese Buddhist Sculptures from The Freer Gallery of Art (2016) and Light of the Buddha in the Desert: Essays on Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang from 5th-14th Centuries (2012). He is currently a professor at Arts College, Sichuan University.China, ca. 500-534. Finely carved, the face with a serene expression, marked by heavy-lidded downcast eyes, a slender nose, and a sharply carved mouth well detailed with bow-shaped lips and prominent philtrum, flanked by large ears with pendulous lobes. The deity is adorned with an intricate headdress with tasseled ornaments and a billowing band, all backed fragments of a lotus petal halo.Expert's note: The pious expression suggests a moment of deep contemplation, as if the Bodhisattva were listening to the Buddha's teachings, as noted by Dr. Chang in his authentication letter.Provenance: From a private collection in New York, United States. Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Ancient wear, signs of weathering and erosion, cracks, chips, soil encrustations, and obvious losses.Weight: 6.8 kg (excl. stand), 8.4 kg (incl. stand) Dimensions: Height 16.3 cm (excl. stand), 27 cm (incl. stand)With a modern metal stand. (2) Buddhist stone sculpture experienced one of its greatest moments in the Northern Wei period (386-534), when it was strongly patronized by the Imperial court. As the ruling family gradually adopted a more and more Chinese lifestyle, a stylistic change also took place in Buddhist sculpture during this period. Buddhist images with foreign-looking features, which had been adopted from Indian and Central Asian prototypes, when the religion was first introduced to China, gradually disappeared and were replaced by more Chinese-looking Buddha figures. One of the most enchanting styles appeared in the late Northern Wei, as represented by the present figure, when faces with fine and noble features were depicted with a faint smile, signaling enlightenment as much as benevolence. That the deities thus appeared more approachable undoubtedly helped the rapid propagation of the religion at that time. Related sixth-century sculptures have been found in several hoards of Buddhist stone images discovered in Shandong province. The most well-documented is the cache from Longxing Temple in Qingzhou, where hundreds of Buddhist figures were ritually buried—possibly as an act of merit during the Northern Song dynasty—after suffering partial destruction in an earlier anti-Buddhist movement. Literature comparison: Compare a related limestone statue of a Bodhisattva with a similar nimbus in the Shandong Provincial Museum, Jinan.Auction result comparison: Type: Related Auction: Sotheby's Paris, 14 June 2024, lot 55 Price: EUR 144,000 : An important carved limestone figure of a Buddha, Northern Wei dynasty, 6th century Expert remark: Compare the related modeling of the face and similar lotus petal halo. Note the size (107 cm) and state of preservation.

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