尺寸：27.3 x 10.5 x 6.4 cm
年代：8世纪
质地：青铜鎏金 失蜡铸造
风格：中原
来源：纽约大都会博物馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
观音菩萨头戴三叶花冠，侧冠缯带垂下，束发高髻，顶饰一化佛，为阿弥陀佛，是观音菩萨重要的身份标识。菩萨面庞丰腴，五官清晰，眼微闭，直鼻小口。菩萨胸前佩饰璎珞，袒上身，下着长裙，衣纹自然垂下，飘逸流畅。右手托净瓶，左手下垂拈帔帛，身躯向一侧倾斜，以三折枝式跣足立于台座之上。体态婀娜，造型优美，展现了观音菩萨的慈悲柔美之内涵。身两侧的帔帛自肩部蛇形飘下，落于台座之上，极富动感。

造像青铜铸造，通体鎏金，金质苏黄，鎏金保存完好，局部有脱落。铜在唐代十分贵重，故当时所造佛像尺寸高度多在 5 ～ 10 公分，此像高度超过 27公分，铸造工艺精湛，整像造型生动，堪称唐代金铜造像中的精品，弥足珍贵。

This bodhisattva can be identified as Avalokiteshvara by the small sculpture of a Buddha on his headdress and by the vessel he holds in his right hand. The shape of this vessel, particularly its bird’s-head top, typifies metalwork and ceramics produced in China in the late seventh and early eighth centuries.

来源:
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller , New York (until 1942; donated to MMA)

展览:
Tokyo National Museum. “Special Exhibition: Gilt Bronze Buddhist Statues - China, Korea, Japan,” March 10, 1987–April 19, 1987.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Arts of Ancient China,” 2005.

文献:
Chinese Bronzes of the Shang (1766–1122 B.C.) through the Tang (A.D. 618–906) Dynasty. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1938, p. 24, cat. no. 293.
Priest, Alan. Chinese Sculpture in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944, p. 35, cat. no. 31, pl. LXIII.
Pal, Pratapaditya. The Ideal Image: The Gupta Sculptural Tradition and Its Influence. Exh. cat. [New York]: Asia Society, 1978, p. 138, cat. no. 94.