尺寸：H. 18 1/2 in. (47 cm); W. 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm); D. 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm)
年代：6世纪末-7世纪初(Gupta period)
质地：合金铜
风格：印度 笈多
来源：纽约大都会博物馆
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可参阅非常相似的一尊:6-7世纪印度笈多风格合金铜释迦牟尼佛立像(伦敦V&A博物馆)

This Buddha image embodies the qualities of inner radiant calm and stillness, the products of supreme wisdom. He dispenses reassurance and protection to his followers with a raised hand held in abhaya-mudra, the ‘fear not’ gesture. The Buddha is robed in the simple uncut cloth of a monk, gracefully drawn around the body so as to define form, to create an image that is at once ethereal (优雅的) and sensuous. A state of Buddhahood(成佛) is defined iconographically by the presence of a series of auspicious(吉祥的) markings (lakshanas): here we see the attenuated earlobes, protruding skull and webbing between the fingers. Taken together these features, both natural and supernatural, denote preordained sanctity and a state of Buddhahood. Few metal Buddha images survived the collapsed of monastic Buddhism in the late 12th century, and most that are preserved did so in Tibet, where they had been spirited away for safety in the medieval period.

Enlightened Technology: Radiographing an Image of the Buddha: 对此尊佛像的3D-X光成像

此研究使用传统X光拍摄和三维成像技术对佛像的内部结构进行勘查。

正面X光片展示出一个不寻常的特征：佛像上有一系列的白点，最初并不知晓其功用。通过对各种内部和外部特征的观察，研究人员认为这些白点展示了佛像内部的某些节点，分布在这些空心铸件的内芯。大多数金属人物造像是垂直铸造的，往往头部朝下，金属熔液从脚部注入铸模。然而，笈多风格造像从其背面的孔隙可知是人面朝下水平铸造的。因此，研究人员得出结论，内部节点的作用是将金属溶液从塑像的背面引导到正面，以确保完成后的造像正面以最少的瑕疵示人。

来源:
[Claude de Marteau , Brussels, by 1969, sold to MMA]

展览:
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Masterpieces of the Art of India from The Museum's Collections,” January 18–May 31, 1973.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Bronze Sculptures from Asia,” February 25, 1975–March 21, 1976.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “The Pala-Sena Period,” 2007.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Making The Met, 1870–2020,” August 29, 2020–January 3, 2021.

著录:
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Fong Chow. “Reports of the Departments.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin: One-Hundredth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the Fiscal Year 1969-1970, n.s., 29, no. 2, October 1970. p. 80.

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Lerner, Martin. Bronze Sculptures from Asia. Exh. cat. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975, cat. no. 3, pl. 3.

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Behrendt, Kurt. The Art of Gandhara in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007, p. 77, fig. 31.

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Graldi, Aurora. “Travelling Icons and Travelling Donors. A Metal Buddha Image in The Cleveland Museum of Art.” Orientations 49, no. 1 (2018). pp. 96–102.

Behrendt, Kurt. How to Read Buddhist Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019, pp. 14, 46–49, figs. 2, 28, 29.

Schorsch, Deborah, Lawrence Becker, and Federico Carò. “Enlightened Techology: Casting Divinity in the Gupta Age.” Arts of Asia 49, no. 2 (March–April 2019). pp. 131–43, figs. 2–4, 15a, b, 16, 18, 19.