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尺寸：39.5 x 14.3 cm
年代：东魏(539年)
质地：青铜
风格：中原
来源：美国弗利尔美术馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
南北朝时期，弥勒信仰在上层社会乃至民间广泛流传，并逐步走向鼎盛，成为先于阿弥陀佛和观世音菩萨的信奉对象。当时北方地区的弥勒佛造像十分普遍，敦煌、云冈、龙门等地均有数量众多的弥勒佛造像。表现在形态上，既有交脚弥勒像(弥勒菩萨像)，又有类似释迦牟尼佛像的弥勒佛像(弥勒下生成佛像)。

这件珍贵的东魏青铜造像是中国早期的弥勒佛造像之一，腾腾向上的火焰纹构成了大型舟状背光，顶部有一飞天在起舞。头戴发冠，面形清秀，神态慈悲安详。衣饰自然垂下，右手当胸结无畏印，左手施与愿印，安住于莲花法座之上。

Previous custodian or owner
Yamanaka and Co. 山中商会 (1917 - 1965) (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Provenance
To 1915
Yamanaka & Company, New York to 1915 [1]
From 1915 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Yamanaka & Company, New York in 1915 [2]
From 1920
The Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:
[1] Undated folder sheet note. See Original Bronze List, S.I. 552, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.