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Auction archive: Lot number 5

A VERY RARE EARLY GILT-BRONZE FRAGMENTARY VOTIVE FIGURE OF MAITREYA CHINA,...

Estimate
US$30,000 - US$40,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 5

A VERY RARE EARLY GILT-BRONZE FRAGMENTARY VOTIVE FIGURE OF MAITREYA CHINA,...

Estimate
US$30,000 - US$40,000
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

A very rare early gilt-bronze fragmentary votive figure of Maitreya China, Northern Wei dynasty, second-half 5th Century the deity standing with feet spread apart upon a pedestal of inverted lotus lappets set on a fragmentary corner-leg square base incised on three sides with a frieze of Hellenistic- or Sassanian-influenced panels enclosing splayed florets, and flanked by columns of vertically clustered florets and chevron bands, the tightly gathered folds of the splayed robes looping up from the legs and draped across the neck to fall over his left shoulder, the oval head in high-relief with incised features and ridged usnisha, framed by ring-punched aureole and circular halo of radiating lappets, the leaf-shaped mandorla incised with rising flames within a ring-punched raised filet, and outer border of eleven smaller Buddha images seated within flames, the reverse of the mandorla finely cast in raised relief with the 'Pensive Maitreya' seated with one leg crossed over the other, with the pendant foot resting on a lotus, beside an arching bodhi tree, and encircled by further smaller Buddha images and with the unusual incised accents of a Naga-serpent emerging from the leaves of the tree, and a long-necked kundika water-vessel, the proper right side of the mandorla and rear of the pedestal base now lacking, stand 10 1/8 in., 26.3 cm

Auction archive: Lot number 5
Auction:
Datum:
21 Sep 2007
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
Beschreibung:

A very rare early gilt-bronze fragmentary votive figure of Maitreya China, Northern Wei dynasty, second-half 5th Century the deity standing with feet spread apart upon a pedestal of inverted lotus lappets set on a fragmentary corner-leg square base incised on three sides with a frieze of Hellenistic- or Sassanian-influenced panels enclosing splayed florets, and flanked by columns of vertically clustered florets and chevron bands, the tightly gathered folds of the splayed robes looping up from the legs and draped across the neck to fall over his left shoulder, the oval head in high-relief with incised features and ridged usnisha, framed by ring-punched aureole and circular halo of radiating lappets, the leaf-shaped mandorla incised with rising flames within a ring-punched raised filet, and outer border of eleven smaller Buddha images seated within flames, the reverse of the mandorla finely cast in raised relief with the 'Pensive Maitreya' seated with one leg crossed over the other, with the pendant foot resting on a lotus, beside an arching bodhi tree, and encircled by further smaller Buddha images and with the unusual incised accents of a Naga-serpent emerging from the leaves of the tree, and a long-necked kundika water-vessel, the proper right side of the mandorla and rear of the pedestal base now lacking, stand 10 1/8 in., 26.3 cm

Auction archive: Lot number 5
Auction:
Datum:
21 Sep 2007
Auction house:
Sotheby's
New York
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