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A SMALL BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED BUDDHA, SRIVIJAYA EMPIRE, 8TH-9TH CENTURY
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A SMALL BRONZE FIGURE OF A SEATED BUDDHA, SRIVIJAYA EMPIRE, 8TH-9TH CENTURY

Southern Sumatra. Heavily cast, seated in dhyanasana, the right hand raised in vitarka mudra while the left hand rests above the lap, draped in a diaphanous uttarasanga that covers the left shoulder and falls diagonally across the chest, leaving the right shoulder and arm bare. The hieratic expression of the figure characterized by heavy-lidded, downcast eyes beneath gently arched brows centered by a raised urna, a broad nose, and full lips forming a subtle smile, framed by long, pendulous earlobes. The hair arranged in large snail-shell curls surmounting the domed ushnisha.

Provenance: La Balaustra Antichità, Arte Archeologia classica orientale e precolombiana, 1998, Bologna, Italy. Collection of Paolo Bertuzzi (1943-2022), acquired from the above. A copy of a stamped certificate written by Giuliana Zanetti of Antichità La Balaustra, adressed to Paolo Bertuzzi, dated 20 March 1998, dating the present lot to the 8th-9th century, accompanies this lot. Paolo Bertuzzi (1943-2022) was a fashion stylist from Bologna. He was the son of Enrichetta Bertuzzi, founder of Hettabretz, a noted Italian fashion company with customers such as the Rothschild family, Audrey Hepburn, and Elizabeth Taylor. Paolo Bertuzzi later took over his mother’s business and designed exclusive pieces, some of which were exhibited in the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA. He was also an avid collector of antiques for more than sixty years. His collection includes both archaic and contemporary art, and he edited two important books about Asian art, Goa Made - An Archaeological Discovery, about a large-scale archaeological project carried out with the Italian and Indonesian governments, and Majapahit, Masterpieces from a Forgotten Kingdom.
Condition: Good condition with ancient wear and casting irregularities. Expected traces of weathering and erosion. Few minor nicks and minute dents. The bronze surface with a dark, naturally grown patina with some areas of soil encrustation, as a result of a prolonged period of burial.

Weight: 638.8 g
Dimensions: Height 12.1 cm

When observing early Indonesian bronze sculptures, the influence of eastern India is immediately apparent. Buddhism was well established in Southeast Asia before the 5th century; a Kashmiri missionary named Gunarvarman travelled to Sri Lanka and then China via Indonesia in the early 5th century and in the opposite direction, the Chinese monk, Faxian visited Java in 414 on his way to India. From the late 7th century, esoteric Buddhism existed in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and western Java.

Literature comparison:
Compare a related gold- and silver-inlaid bronze figure of a seated Buddha, Central Java, Srivijaya Empire, 9th century, 17 cm high, in the National Museum of Jakarta, inventory number 588, and illustrated in Jan Fontein, The sculpture of Indonesia, 1990, no. 39. Compare a related larger bronze figure of a seated Buddha subduing Mara, Thailand, Srivijaya Empire, 10th-12th century, 24 cm high, illustrated in M. C. Subhadradis Diskul, The Art of Srivijaya, 1980, no. 15.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Closely related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 28 March 2024, lot 62
Estimate: USD 2,772 or approx. EUR 2,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A bronze figure of Buddha, Java, 10th century
Expert remark: Compare the closely related modeling of the figure and manner of casting. Note the smaller size (7.6 cm).

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