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A POLYCHROME LIMESTONE STELE OF THE SEATED BUDDHA BEFORE A FLAMING MANDORLA, EASTERN WEI DYNASTY
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04月17日 下午5点 开拍 /15天1小时
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A POLYCHROME LIMESTONE STELE OF THE SEATED BUDDHA BEFORE A FLAMING MANDORLA, EASTERN WEI DYNASTYPublished & Exhibited: Myth, Devotion and the Material World, Weisbrod Chinese Art, 18 March-4 April 1997, p. 60-61, no. 22.China, 534-550. Finely carved in relief, the Buddha seated in dhyanasana atop a pedestal before a flaming mandorla carved with raised, lambent flames. The hands rest clasped above the lap in meditation, the figure clad in voluminous monastic robes falling in thick pleats to the ankles. The face with a serene expression, heavy-lidded downcast eyes beneath arched brows, a broad nose, and full lips forming a gentle smile, flanked by elongated, bracket-shaped ears.Red pigment covers the flesh of the face and folded hands as well as the flaming mandorla, while black pigment highlights the hair and the simple robes overlapping at the front over an under-robe gathered in three plain folds above the crossed legs.Provenance: Weisbrod Chinese Art, New York, United States, by 1997 and held until 2007. Thereafter in an art storage facility in New Jersey, and deaccessioned in 2025. Michael B. Weisbrod is a noted scholar of Chinese art, who has published extensively on the subject over a time span of more than fifty years. In 1972, Michael joined his father Dr. Gerald Weisbrod's Asian art gallery in Toronto, Canada. The father-and-son team opened their New York location on Madison Avenue in 1977, and during the next forty-five years the gallery held a significant number of exhibitions, selling to museums and private collectors across the globe, eventually adding further locations in Shanghai and Hong Kong.Condition: Very good condition, commensurate with age. Wear, small losses, nicks, flaking to pigment, signs of weathering and erosion, and soil encrustations. Possibly minor fatigue cracks. The pigments are clearly ancient and have been renewed over time, as typical for this corpus, likely on several occasions.Weight: 64.5 kgDimensions: Height 57 cmBuddhist stone sculptures produced during the transitional period spanning the Northern Wei dynasty, Eastern Wei dynasty, and Northern Qi dynasty illustrate the significant stylistic developments that took place in China during the 5th and 6th centuries. Although these regimes were founded by non-Han ruling elites, sculptors continued to follow established Buddhist iconographic conventions while gradually adapting them to Chinese artistic sensibilities. Figures from the Northern and Eastern Wei periods are typically rendered in a frontal and highly formalized manner, clad in monastic robes defined by stylized, high-relief U-shaped folds. Eastern Wei examples in particular often feature Buddhas with pronounced ushnishas, sometimes flanked by attendant bodhisattvas adorned with jeweled ornaments. These images were usually conceived as relief sculptures set against mandorlas and embellished with decorative motifs above the head.The present sculpture reflects this tradition through its frontal composition, the Buddha seated before a flaming mandorla, and the strongly stylized treatment of the robes, all characteristic of Buddhist devotional reliefs produced in northern China during this transitional period.Auction result comparison: Type: Closely relatedAuction: Sotheby's London, 2 November 2022, lot 211Price: GBP 252,000 or approx. EUR 335,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: A rare and important sandstone Buddhist stele, Eastern Wei dynastyExpert remark: Compare the closely related modeling and similar scrolling flames to the aureole. Note the larger size (83 cm).

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