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尺寸：高18.6cm
年代：清代 18世纪
质地：铜鎏金
风格：乾隆
来源：拍卖会
成交：87,500美元(2015.03)
参阅：纽约邦瀚斯
鉴赏：
清代乾隆仿尼泊尔风格

A parcel-gilt copper alloy figure of Shakyamuni
Qing, 18th century
Seated in dhyanasana on an oval base in the attitude of bhumisparsha mudra, his face and hair with remains of cold gold and pigments.
7 3/8 in. (18.6 cm) high

The Qianlong Emperor took great interest in Buddhist art across Asia, commissioning various stylistic copies of sculptures that reached his court before or during his reign. His project then influenced workshops throughout the empire. As Patricia Berger suggests:

'For Qianlong, copying was a way of harnessing the careers of charismatic objects, of possessing them, of channeling their energy in unexpected, powerful ways… For this emperor, the image was a profound and mysterious thing that by its very nature could survive long past its creation and outlast its creator to witness history, to forge a career and life of its own, and even to spawn a family of derivative works.' – (Berger, Empire of Emptiness, Honolulu, 2003, p. 127)

The present sculpture is one such 'descendent', recreating a 12th-century Nepalese style, which in turn is derived from more ancient Licchavi-period Buddhas (5th-8th centuries). The models used in Qing workshops would have been similar to a bronze formerly of the Heeramaneck Collection (see Pal, Art of Nepal, Berkeley, 1985, no. 528) and another sold at Sotheby's, New York, 19 September 1996, lot 83.

Four Confessional Buddhas sold at Sotheby's, New York, 5 December 1992, lot 48, and 19 September 1996, lot 79, represent similar examples of this Nepalese-revival style. However, they are clearly not as refined. This gentle yet commanding sculpture is a superlative work of the type; the contours of his hands and feet are carefully modeled and incised below a glossy copper patina, and the hems of his monastic robe fan out in heart-shaped pleats before his ankles. It is likely from the same set or workshop as a bronze of a Buddha published in Kazi, Tibet House Museum: Inaugural Exhibition, New Delhi, 1965, pl. 16.

Referenced:
HAR – himalayanart.org/image.cfm/41259.html
古比特佛像网, 编号: 释迦牟尼佛408

Provenance:
Private European Collection
Acquired from the Private Collection of Ulrich von Schroeder in the late 1980s/early 90s