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尺寸：高22.2cm
年代：10世纪
质地：铜鎏金
风格：尼泊尔
来源：拍卖会
成交：92,500美元(2012.03)
参阅：纽约苏富比
鉴赏：
Siddhaikavira Manjushri(白文殊)
Gilt copper
Nepal
height 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm)
circa 10th Century
古比特佛像网, 编号: 文殊菩萨211

品相说明:
Good and stable overall condition. Accretion and wear to gilding throughout. Object appears darker and less reddish than in catalogue illustration.

Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, March 25, 1999, lot 33

Catalogue Note
Standing in subtle abhanga on a circular lotus pedestal, holding the seed of a lily in the lowered right hand, and with his left in the gesture of holding a flower, adorned with a single crown leaf set against the ushnisha, simple necklace, earrings and bracelets set high on the arms and bangles at the wrist, a patterned cloth secured at the waist with a jewelled belt, and a sash tied at the thigh and falling to the lotus pedestal below.

Cf. two similar Nepalese gilt copper examples, one in the Norton Simon Foundation and one in the Zimmerman Family Collection, see von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 321, pl. 82D and 82F. And for an example with flower intact, said to be a blue lily (nilotpala) according to the sadhanas, see von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, Hong Kong, 2001, vol. I, p. 499, pl. 160F.