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A FRAGMENTARY LIMESTONE BUST OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI, LATE NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY
奥地利
2025年10月16日 开拍
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Expert authentication: Dr. Chang Qing has authenticated this lot, identifying its iconographic and stylistic characteristics as typical of the late Northern Wei period. A copy of Dr. Chang's expertise, dated April 6, 2010, 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, 500-534. Finely caved, the slender figure wearing long, layered robes cast with crisp parallel folds, the garment open at the chest revealing the knotted tie of the undergarment underneath. The face with a serene expression detailed with heavy-lidded downcast eyes, and full bow-shaped lips forming a calm smile. The hair is arranged in neatly incised whorl-like curls over the domed ushnisha.Provenance: A private collection in Hong Kong. A private collection in New York, United States, acquired from the above in 2006.Condition: Good condition, commensurate with age. Old wear, obvious losses, structural cracks and fissures, some with associated old fills, chips, nicks, scratches, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations.Weight: 60.6 kg (incl. stand) Dimensions: Height 75 cm (excl. stand), 94 cm (incl. stand)With an associated metal stand. (2)Buddhist stone sculpture experienced one of its greatest moments in the Northern Wei period, when it was strongly patronized by the Imperial court. As the ruling family gradually adopted a 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 sculptures of the sixth century were discovered among many hoards of Buddhist stone sculptures discovered in Shandong province, the best known and best-researched of which is the find from the site of Longxing Temple, Qingzhou, where hundreds of Buddhist images had been ritually buried, perhaps as a meritorious deed in the Northern Song dynasty after having been partially destroyed during some earlier anti-Buddhist movement. The present sculpture has much in common with sculptures found at Qingzhou, in particular the enchanting other-worldly expression of the delicately featured face with its faint smile, as well as the stylized rendering of the hair through a dense, regular array of bosses.Literature comparison: Compare a closely related limestone head of Buddha in the Shandong Provincial Museum, Jinan. Compare a full figure of Buddha with a similar head, dated Northern/Eastern Wei dynasty, at Sotheby's New York, 16 September 2015, lot 422, estimated at USD $800,000 -$1,200.000.Auction result comparison: Type: RelatedAuction: Sotheby's London, 1 November 2023, lot 114Price: GBP 127,000 or approx. EUR 158,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: A large carved limestone figure of a Buddha, Northern Qi-Eastern Wei dynastyExpert remark: Compare the related modeling and manner of carving with similar robe. Note the larger size (125 cm) and the state of preservation.13% VAT will be added to the hammer price additional to the buyer's premium - only for buyers within the EU.

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