佛像网

尺寸：高约109.2cm
年代：北宋 10-12世纪
质地：木雕(地黄木胎) Wood (foxglove) with traces of pigment; single woodblock construction
风格：中原
来源：纽约大都会博物馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
左手拿着卷轴标志着这个人物是文殊菩萨，智慧的化身，她一般表现为手持这样一个中式手卷或印度风格的贝叶经手稿。

Bodhisattva Manjushri (Wenshu)
late 10th–early 12th century
佛像网, 编号: 文殊菩萨033

The scroll held in the bodhisattva’s left hand identifies the figure as Manjushri, the personification of spiritual wisdom, who is generally shown holding such a text in the form of either a Chinese-style handscroll or an Indian-style palm-leaf manuscript.

来源:
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller , New York (until 1942; donated to MMA)

展览:
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Weber Galleries Reinstallation,” October 14, 1998–March 19, 2010.

著录:
Priest, Alan. Chinese Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944, p. 42, cat. no. 49, pl. XCIII.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Art Treasures of the Metropolitan: A Selection from the European and Asiatic Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Ar. New York: H. N. Abrams, 1952, p. 239, pl. 200.
Matsubara Saburo. “On the genealogy of the Chinese sculpture of the Song-Yuan dynasty period, with special reference to the images of Bodhisattva.” Kokka No. 833 (August 1961). p. 353, fig. 15.
Chow, Fong. “Chinese Buddhist Sculpture: Part I.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., 23, no. 9 (May 1965). p. 323, fig. 37.
Tanabe Saburōsuke. “Chinese Wood Statues Existing in America and Canada; Examples from the Qin Dynasty and Around.” Museum, 2, no. 214, January 1969. pp. 29–34, fig. 13.
Hearn, Maxwell K. “Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 73, no. 1 (summer 2015) p. 23, fig. 31.