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国内拍卖首页 > Galerie Zacke > 第一天——精美的亚洲艺术、佛教与印度教 > Lot 0071
AN IMPORTANT GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF THE WILLOW BRANCH GUANYIN, SUI DYNASTY
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2025年10月16日 开拍
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China, 581-618. Finely cast standing in tribhanga atop a hollow double-lotus base raised on an octagonal plinth, holding a willow branch in the left hand and in the right hand a water vessel. The slender body draped in a long robe with a trailing shawl, a sash-tied dhoti, and adorned with a long beaded necklace draping across the bare chest suspending a double-pendant and then extending in two cords down the torso and legs, the body further embellished with bracelets, armbands, earrings, and a multi-part diadem surrounding the high chignon.Provenance: A private collection in Japan, acquired in the 1990s, and thence by descent. European private collection, acquired from the above. Condition: Excellent condition with expected wear from centuries of worship and handling. Some minor casting irregularities, rubbing and minute losses to gilt, traces of weathering, encrustations, small areas of corrosion, scattered light nicks and small surface scratches. The bronze with a fine, naturally grown patina.Weight: 290.2 g Dimensions: Height 15.5 cmThe majority of China's early depictions of favored Buddhist subjects and deities included works centering on Shakyamuni and Maitreya, however in the Sui and Tang periods, Avalokiteshvara and Amitabha were painted and carved in greater numbers. According to Marsha Weidner, Latter Days of the Law: Images of Chinese Buddhism, 850-1850, Lawrence, 1994, p. 152, a list of statues at Luoyang after the early Tang period included 222 of Amitabha, 197 of Avalokiteshvara, 94 of Shakyamuni, and 62 of Maitreya. The willow branch iconography can be traced to the complex Sinicization of Avalokiteshvara in relation to the developments in Chinese worship of the deity. The willow branch attribute is not seen in Indian and Tibetan depictions of the bodhisattva, and can possibly be connected to the importance placed on the intense recitation of the Dharani Sutra of Invoking Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara to Dissipate and Subdue Poison and Harm (Qing Guanshiyin Pusa xiaofu duhai tuoluoni zhoujing), first translated from Sanskrit to Chinese by Zhu Nanti of the Eastern Jin dynasty, in which Buddha directs ailing disciples to offer Avalokiteshvara willow branches and clean water in order to receive his great mercy. The graceful, slightly swayed stance and style of the clothing and adornment seen on this figure are typical of the depiction of bodhisattvas during the Sui period. Capelets like on the present figure, worn crossed in front of the body with the ends draped across opposing arms, with an additional sash joining the draping on the lower arm, were a common feature of the late 6th century.Literature comparison:Compare a related larger gilt-bronze figure, Sui dynasty, dated to the late 6th century, 43.8 cm high, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, object number 12.161a-c, and illustrated by Denise Patry Leidy and Donna Strahan, Wisdom Embodied: Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2010, pp. 86-87, no. 12, where the authors note that the willow branch, an attribute that first appeared in the late sixth century, helps to identify the figure as Avalokiteshvara.Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Christie's New York, 14 September 2017, lot 817 Price: USD 300,000 or approx. EUR 336,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing : A gilt-bronze standing figure of a bodhisattva, Sui dynasty Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling, manner of casting, and gilding. Note the size (19.8 cm).Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Sotheby's New York, 19 March 2025, lot 158, Estimate: USD 250,000 or approx. EUR 214,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing : A magnificent and finely cast gilt-bronze figure of Avalokiteshvara, Sui dynasty Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling, manner of casting, gilding, and subject, with similar expression, adornments, and double lotus base. Note the similar size (16.8 cm) and that this lot was previously sold at Christie's New York, 21 March 2014, lot 2048, for USD 100,000 or approx. EUR 118,000 (converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing).Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Christie's New York, 20 September 2013, lot 1512 Price: USD 159,750 or approx. EUR 189,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing : A gilt-bronze figure of a bodhisattva, Sui dynasty Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling, manner of casting, and gilding. Note the size (18.2 cm).

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