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尺寸：21 x 17.8 x 11.1 cm
年代：11世纪
质地：铜鎏金 失蜡铸造
风格：大理
来源：纽约大都会博物馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
这是一尊十分稀有，铸造于十一世纪云南大理国的铜鎏金千手观音菩萨坐像，目前收藏于纽约大都会艺术博物馆之中。

这尊千手观音最大的特色是通体共有二十二只手，全部采用圆雕，结构稀疏排列有序，这是非常少见的。观音菩萨头戴宝冠，二侧发绺垂肩，面相圆润端庄，神态慈悲安详。身佩璎珞、手镯及挂珠庄严全身。共有二十二只手臂象征千臂；其中一双主臂当胸合掌，另有一双手臂向上高举日月轮，另有一双手臂膝前持套索和念珠，其余的手臂各持法器，双腿呈金刚跏趺坐安住于法座之上。

造像整体造像简洁明快，是典型的大理国金铜佛像。具有鲜明的云南古代少数民族的艺术审美感和地方特色。由于南诏大理国佛像存世量极少，特别是千手观音像存世更为稀有，且能保存如此完好的更是罕见，此像具有极高的艺术性和古代西南少数民族文物价值。

Although painted depictions of this powerful form of Avalokiteshvara often detail the bodhisattva’s one thousand hands, sculptures such as this frequently follow a convention in which only twenty-two hands are shown. Avalokiteshvara holds his two primary hands in a prayerful gesture before his chest, while the remaining twenty are paired at right and left, bearing implements that illustrate the potency of this important manifestation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion. For example, the lower two hands hold a miraculous lasso and rosary, while the upper two hold disks symbolic of the sun (left) and the moon (right).