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naturalistically modeled, the softly rounded fi gure seated with legs outstretched, arms down at the sides with hands clenched in opposing directions, a raised line below the neck indicate the nowabraded presence of a foliate-painted apron, the plump-cheeked face with fi nely-articulated features, alert open eyes, and the mouth drawn up in a contented half smile, adorned with bracelets to both wrists and an amulet around the neck, traces of white slip and pigment
Height 11? in., 30 cm
PROVENANCE
German Private Collection, 1950s.
Raimann & Raimann, Weisbaden, Germany, 2010.
The present fi gure is exceptional for the deft quality of the modeling. A seated pottery fi gure of a young boy, also perhaps depicting the infant Buddha, of similar scale, with hands raised, one holding a peach, was o| ered in these rooms 21st September 2005, lot 60. Similar smaller pottery of depictions of boys with fi nely drawn features and somewhat elongated heads, are known, see a group of seven painted pottery fi gures, from a tomb dated to 1113 CE, excavated in Zhenjiang city, Jiangsu province, Zhenjiang City Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji, diaosubian, vol. 5, Beijing, 1988, pl. 173.
A gilt-lacquered wood fi gure of a seated boy, of similar proportions, attributed to the Song / Jin Dynasty is illustrated and discussed in The Immortals of the Past, Kaikodo Journal, Spring 2014, Kaikodo, New York, cat. no. 56.
Representations of the seated infant Buddha are rare. A bronze example of an infant Buddha in meditation pose was sold in our London rooms 5th November 2008, lot 105
Images of the infant Buddha cast in bronze standing and pointing up to the sky are more commonly found; see several examples included in the exhibition The Casting of Religion. A Special Exhibition of Mr. Peng Kai-dong’s Donation, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2004, cat. nos 178-185.
The dating of this lot is consistent with the result of a thermoluminescence test, Oxford Authentication Ltd., sample no. C205m5, 16th December 2005.
宋 陶加彩童子俑
來源 德國私人收藏，1950年代
Raimann & Raimann，威斯巴登，德國，2010年
