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A LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF MAITREYA, PRAKHON CHAI STYLE, 1850-1950
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2025年10月16日 开拍
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A LARGE BRONZE FIGURE OF MAITREYA, PRAKHON CHAI STYLE, 1850-1950Thailand or Cambodia. The Bodhisattva is depicted in a graceful standing samapada posture, clad in a short sampot secured at the waist by a cord, with outstretched arms and hands held in dharmachakra mudra, symbolizing wisdom, knowledge, and spiritual enlightenment. The face with prominent lips below sinuous eyes, flanked by elongated earlobes, and the hair tied in smooth locks arranged into a tall chignon, and centered to the front with a stupa within a rectangular niche.Provenance: From a private estate in France. Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, slight traces of weathering, encrustations, remnants of varnish and pigment, a small area of the hair cut from sample-taking with associated fill.Metallurgy: Brass alloy composed of copper, zinc, tin, lead, iron, aluminum, silicon, and nickel. Aluminum was only introduced into metallurgy in the second half of the 19th century. Inclusions also contain iron, silicon, chromium, and nickel, with chromium likewise entering metallurgy during the 19th century. The corrosion is scarcely developed, remaining subparallel to the surface without penetrating into the metal. Taken together, these features are fully consistent with a Southeast Asian bronze figure cast around 1900.Weight: 25 kg Dimensions: Height 131 cm (excl. stand), 153.7 cm (incl. stand)With a modern stand. (2)This figure of Maitreya is a later example made in the style of Prakhon Chai, a region which flourished during the 7th through 9th centuries in northeastern Thailand. Situated along trade routes crossing from India, through Burma and Thailand, towards Cambodia and beyond, Prakhon Chai was a place of confluence, affluence, and the reception and transmission of great spiritual and artistic knowledge. The style displays a fusion of these international intersections in a uniquely local expression that would appear only in this particular place and only for a limited time. As a center of Buddhist practice, primarily Mahayana Buddhism, the Prakhon Chai region produced figures of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas that are depicted as ascetics; the figures are clad in the traditional Khmer and Thai sampot secured with a simple cord, and are otherwise unadorned, a departure from other Khmer styles in which bodhisattvas wear jewelry. As unifying stylistic features, the bodies of Prakhon Chai figures are strikingly slender and graceful, and the fingers of the four hands curl inwards towards the palm, as if the Buddha were delicately plucking flowers. The elaborate looping coiffure in the present example is also distinctive to the region, contrasting with the wild jatamukutas of Shaiva ascetics as they are depicted in India. Here the hair is centered by a stupa, the figure's sole mark of identification as Maitreya.Literature comparison:Compare a related earlier bronze figure of Maitreya, dated to the 8th century, 122.5 cm tall, in the Kimbell Art Museum, accession number AP 1965.01. Compare also a closely related bronze figure of Maitreya in the collection of Haus Kemnade, a water castle in Hattingen, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany.Auction result comparison:Type: RelatedAuction: Christie's New York, 21 March 2015, lot 1067Price: USD 81,250 or approx. EUR 94,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: A bronze figure of Maitreya, Prakhon Chai styleExpert remark: Compare the similar pose, the elongated limbs, and facial expression. Note the different size (47.6 cm). This figure was shown in a 1994 exhibition in the Asia Society New York, where it was dated “possibly 20th century”.

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