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尺寸：高24 cm
年代：11世纪
质地：合金铜
风格：克什米尔
来源：伦敦大英博物馆
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鉴赏：
A figure of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara seated on a cylindrical stool in a rocky setting, above two pairs of seated goats; wearing multicoloured lower garment with strips; his hands making the gestures of giving and protection (turned inwards), and holding a rosary, a triple staff, a waterpot, and the stalk of lotus; his 'parent' Buddha seated on his headdress, and an antelope skin draped over one shoulder. Made of brass with inlaid copper and silver inlaid and some gilding.

一尊观音菩萨像，结跏趺坐于岩景之中的圆筒形台座之上，台座下方有两对山羊。菩萨下身围彩色条纹长裙；双手结施与印和护法印（手势内转），并持念珠、三叉杖、净瓶与莲茎；其冠上有本师阿弥陀佛坐像，一肩斜披鹿皮。此像由黄铜铸造，嵌饰红铜与白银，部分鎏金。

Curator's comments
Identified by von Schroeder as Sugatisandarsana Lokesvara.
Zwalf 1985

The Bodhisattva sits on a cylindrical stool in a rocky setting, with goats, perhaps of his mountain home Potalaka. His presumably multicoloured lower garment is shown by alternating strips of inlaid brass, silver and copper. The texts call this complex form of Bodhisattva 'Lokeśvara who points out good births' and his hands, read clockwise, make the gestures of giving and protection (unusually turned inwards), and hold a rosary, a triple staff, a waterpot, and the stalk of the silver-inlaid lotus. His 'parent' Buddha sits prominently on his headdress, and an antelope skin is draped over one shoulder.

策展人评论

此像被冯·施罗德（von Schroeder）认定为善趣观察世间自在（Sugatisandarsana Lokesvara）。

Zwalf 1985：

此尊菩萨结跏趺坐于岩景之中的圆筒形台座上，身旁的山羊或许暗示着他位于补陀落伽山的居所。其下身原应为彩绘的裙裳，此处以镶嵌的黄铜、白银和红铜相间的条带来表现。密续经文称此种复杂形制的菩萨为“善趣观察世间自在”，其手印与持物，若按顺时针方向解读，依次为：施与印和护法印（与常见样式不同，掌心向内），以及持念珠、三叉杖、净瓶与镶嵌白银的莲茎。其冠上 prominently 安坐着本师佛，一肩斜披鹿皮。

著录:
von Schroeder 1981 / Indo-Tibetan Bronzes (21A)
Zwalf 1985 / Buddhism: Art and Faith (138)

展览:
Buddhism: Art and Faith (BM 1985)

来源:
Purchased from: Prem Chand, 1969年