佛像网

尺寸：高8 ½ in
年代：14-15世纪
质地：铜鎏金
风格：西藏
来源：拍卖会
成交：25,000美元(2018.12)
参阅：纽约佳士得
鉴赏：
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRADHARA
TIBET, 14TH CENTURY
8 ½ in. high

Provenance
Josef Neumann Collection, Sydney.
Lawsons Sydney, 28 April 1999, lot 314.
Phillip Adams Collection, Australia.
Bonham's New York, 13 March 2017, lot 3077.

Lot Essay
The heavenly embodiment of wisdom, Vajradhara, bears a bell (Tib. dril bu) and vajra (Tib. rdo rje) to represent his primordial wisdom and mastery of skillful means, respectively. The important meditational deity is cast here in a distinctly Tibetan style with an elongated torso, simple turquoise ornaments, and implements floating above his shoulders atop open lotuses. While one beholder of this treasure painted its hair in a deep blue, one can still see the attention paid by the artist to the appearance of the strands and the small, curled-up tuft that sits just at the base of its neck. Cold gold covers the buddha’s face and significant traces of the pigments that articulate its facial features also remain. The delicate, yet tubular physique of the present example very closely matches that of a gilt-bronze figure of Vajrasattva from the Collection I. Nunlist, Switzerland published by U. von Schroeder as belonging to the 13th or 14th century in Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1983/2008, pg. 424, fig. 110B.

这尊重要的禅修本尊以鲜明的藏式风格铸就：身形颀长，饰简朴绿松石，法器悬于肩侧盛开莲花之上。虽曾有供奉者将其发髻施以深蓝彩绘，仍可窥见匠人对发丝纹理及颈后微蜷发绺的细致刻画。佛面施冷金，五官勾勒的颜料痕迹亦清晰可辨。此像纤秀而圆润的体态，与瑞士I. Nunlist收藏的一尊金刚萨埵鎏金铜像极为相似——该像被U. von Schroeder在《印藏铜佛》（香港，1983/2008年）第424页图110B中断代为13至14世纪作品。