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尺寸：46.5 x 15.4 x 13.4 cm
年代：6世纪 笈多时期
质地：青铜
风格：印度 笈多 尼泊尔
来源：克利夫兰艺术博物馆
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鉴赏：
这尊有明确的铭文纪年(591年), 根据铭文, 这座雕塑是由尼泊尔一个村庄的修女供奉的, 但很可能是在印度制作的.

Northeastern India or Nepal, Gupta/Licchavi period

Description

Few bronze images of the Buddha dating to this early period in the history of Indian art survive, since bronze lends itself to being melted down for other uses. This example is also exceptional because it carries an extensive inscription on its base that dates it to the year 591. According to the inscription the sculpture was dedicated by a nun who was from a village in Nepal, but it may have been made in a workshop in India. Movable bronze images were made for personal meditation or devotional purposes.

The monk’s robe on this image has been left plain, without pleat lines to obscure the beauty of the contours of the body. Only the rippling scalloped clusters of the garment’s hem lend some sense of energy and subtle ornament to the composition. Hide Inscriptions Inscription

Dated inscription (corresponding to 632) engraved on front of base and extending to its right side: translation “This (image) is the pious gift of the Buddhist nun named Parisuddhamati in the village Ladita. Whatever merit accrues from this (gift) may it lead to the supreme enlightenment of all living beings. (This gift was made) in the year 313 (300.10.3). (It is the wish) that (a certain ascetic) Purnnaka belonging to the monastery in the locality of Chaityakuta should be fed.”

Provenance
?-1968
(I. Kahane, Inc., Zürich, Switzerland, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
1968-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 231 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 290 archive.org

Cunningham, Michael R., Stanislaw J. Czuma, Anne E. Wardwell, and J. Keith Wilson. Masterworks of Asian Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1998. Reproduced: pp. 130-131

Sharma, Deo Prakash, and Madhuri Sharma. Early Buddhist Metal Images of South Asia: With Special Reference to Gupta-Vakatakas Period. Delhi: Bharatiya Kala Prakashan, 2000. Reproduced: fig. 41, p. 103

Czuma, Stanislaw, “Great Acquisitions and Southeast Asian Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art,” Orientations, An Issue in Honour of Sherman E. Lee (Jan/Feb 2005), vol. 36, no. 1. Reproduced: p. 39, fig. 5

Pal, Pratapaditya, and Siddharth K. Bhansali. The Elegant Image: Bronzes from the Indian Subcontinent in the Siddharth K. Bhansali Collection. Mumbai: Marg Foundation, 2011. p. 36

Graldi, Aurora. “Travelling Icons and Travelling Donors: A Metal Buddha Image in The Cleveland Museum of Art.” Orientations, volume 49, number 1 (January/February 2018), p. 96-102. Mentioned: p. 96-102

Guy, John. “Parading Buddha in the Post-Gupta Age: A Newly Discovered Masterpiece of Indian Bronze Sculpture.” Orientations 47, no. 2 (March 2018): 102-112. Reproduced: p. 105

Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1968. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 29-March 9, 1969).

Streams and Mountains Without End: Asian Art and the Legacy of Sherman E. Lee at the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 27-August 23, 2009).