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尺寸：高17.2cm
年代：清代 18世纪
质地：铜鎏金
风格：北京 汉藏
来源：拍卖会
成交：43,750美元(2015.09)
参阅：纽约邦瀚斯
鉴赏：
A gilt-bronze seated figure of Vajrasattva
18th century
Elaborately attired, bejeweled, and coiffed in flowing tresses, the princely figure seated in dhyanasana with a tautly swaying body and holding a ghanta at his left hip while he raises his drilled right hand to mid-chest level, all supported by a crisply cast double lotus plinth resealed by a bronze plate centered by a visvavajra.
6 3/4in (17.2cm) high

十八世紀 鎏金銅金剛薩埵坐像
古比特佛像网, 编号: 金刚萨埵:金刚萨埵106

This figure is the Bodhisattva which simultaneously grasps the two complementary aspects of enlightenment as understood by the Vajrayana practitioners of the Manchu court. Here the female element of prajna wisdom is represented by the ghanta bell thrust towards his lap, while the delicate fingers of the upheld right hand are curled to caress a now missing thunderbolt or vajra, the active male implement of expedient means or method.

The thin face is centered by a sharp nose tapered directly to the simple eyebrows in a manner reminiscent of Nepali prototypes. This face, the crisply cast but simply rendered double lotus base, as well as the treatment of the figure's 'Recompense Body' of sumptuous raiment, diadem and jewels are all consonant with other published 18th century Sino-Tibetan examples. See, for example, the seated statue of White Tara published by Wang Jiapeng et al. ed, Gugong Bowuyuancang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji vol 60: Zangchuan Fojiao Zaoxiang, Hong Kong, 2008, p. 258, pl. 247. Though clearly a larger and more elaborate example than the present lot, there are still notable similarities specifically in the beaded feet, the base, and the folds of the figures' dhotis cascading towards the front of the bases in fluid but tightly ordered waves of cloth.

Also of note is the nearly identical face to the dated Gengyin nian Amitayus figures the Qianlong emperor commissioned for the combined celebrations of his 60th and his mother's 80th birthdays in 1770, which are popular in collections around the globe and at auction. The face of a gilt-bronze Amitayus sold in our San Francisco rooms, sale 21008, 9 October 2013, lot 3166, was a particularly similar example.