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A RARE GOLD REPOUSSÉ PLAQUE DEPICTING MAITREYA, MON-DVARAVATI, 7TH-8TH CENTURY
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04月16日 下午5点 开拍 /14天1小时
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A RARE GOLD REPOUSSé PLAQUE DEPICTING MAITREYA, MON-DVARAVATI, 7TH-8TH CENTURYThailand. Of rectangular form, minutely embossed and chased to depict the ascetic-bodhisattva Maitreya standing in a slight tribhanga atop a lotus pedestal issuing several scrolling blooms, the primary hands of the deity clutching a kundika (water flask) and stem of a lotus, the secondary arms raised and holding prayer beads and a manuscript. The face with a serene expression, almond-shaped eyes below arched brows, flanked by ears with pendulous earrings, the hair tied in a tall jatamakuta away from the face, centered by a diminutive stupa.Provenance: A private collection in Bergamo, Italy. Leonardo Vigorelli, Bergamo, Italy, acquired from the above. The back of the stand with a label from Dalton Somaré Galleria, Milan, Italy. Leonardo Vigorelli, a retired Italian art dealer and renowned collector, once specialized in African and ancient Hindu-Buddhist art. With a background in anthropology and decades of travel and field research across India, the Himalayas, Southeast Asia, and Africa, he founded the prestigious Dalton Somaré art gallery in Milan, now managed by his two sons.Condition: Very good condition with expected wear, manufacturing irregularities, light warping and small dents, few thin tears and minuscule holes, encrustations.Weight: 15 g (excl. stand), 793.3 g (incl. stand) Dimensions: Height 12 cm (excl. stand), 20.2 cm (incl. stand)With an associated and fitted museum stand. (2)This finely worked gold repoussé plaque belongs to a rare and evocative group of early Southeast Asian ritual objects. Fashioned from a thin sheet of gold and worked in repoussé, the design would have been carefully hammered from the reverse to create a softly raised image, demonstrating both technical refinement and devotional intent.Such plaques are closely associated with early Buddhist practice in the region, particularly during the Dvaravati period. Rather than serving as visible adornments, many examples were created for ritual interment. They were sometimes buried as foundation deposits beneath temples or sacred structures, consecrating the ground prior to construction and imbuing the site with spiritual protection and merit. The preciousness of the material underscores the sanctity of the act. Gold, incorruptible and luminous, was especially suited to objects intended for religious dedication. Though small in scale, plaques of this type carry profound symbolic significance, embodying both personal devotion and communal religious aspiration at a formative moment in the development of Thai Buddhist art.Literature comparison:Compare a closely related gold repoussé plaque depicting Vishnu, Thailand, Mon-Dvaravati period, dated c. 600s, 7.6 cm high, in the Cleveland Museum of Art, accession number 1973.75. Compare a closely related gold repoussé plaque depicting Vishnu with attendant, Thailand, dated c. 700, 30.2 cm high, in the Norton Simon Museum, accession number F.1972.19.2.S. Compare a closely related gold repoussé plaque depicting a bodhisattva, Thailand, dated to the 7th-8th century, 12.1 cm high, in the Norton Simon Museum, accession number M.1975.15.1.2.S.

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