AN IMPORTANT LARGE STONE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA

细节

AN IMPORTANT LARGE STONE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
NORTHERN QI DYNASTY

The finely carved figure shown standing on a small base with right hand pendent at the side holding a palmette, with a shawl draped over the shoulders and open at the chest revealing a tasseled necklace beneath a longer beaded necklace that crosses through a flowerhead at the abdomen and hangs down below the knees in large loops, the shawl and dhoti falling in elegant U-curves, the hair worn in two long plaits and a topknot secured in front by a tiara, with traces of pigment, some old damages and some repair to nose
50in. (127cm.) high

来源

Muto Collection, Kobe
Yamaoka Seibei Collection, Kyoto

出版

Toyo Kobijutsu Kenkyu Shiryo Mokuji, Yamanaka Shunkodo, 1930, pl. 24
Ohmura Seigai, Shina Kobijutsu Zuhu (Illustrated Study of Ancient Chinese Art), Tokyo, 1932, vol. II, no. 119
S. Matsubara, Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, Tokyo, 1966, pl. 157 a-c
S. Matsubara, 'The Establishment of the Sui Style in Buddhist Sculpture', Bijutsu Kenkyu, The Institute of Art Research, no. 288, Tokyo, July 1973, p. 55, no. 7

展览

London, Eskenazi, Ancient Chinese Sculpture, 1981, no. 5

拍品专文

Standing figures of this type, wearing the same kind of looped necklace gathered either by a rosette medallion or criss-crossed through a bi just below waist level, and wearing variations of the same kind of shawl, dhoti and jewelry, are in the Victoria Gallery of Art, Melbourne, illustrated by Willetts, Foundations of Chinese Art, New York, 1965, pl. 130; in the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, included in the exhibition, The Crawford Bequest, Brown University, February 6-March 14, 1993, Catalogue, no. 1; in the Morse Collection, included in the exhibition, Spirit and Ritual, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982, no. 56, wearing additional, more elaborate jewelry and dated Northern Qi/Sui dynasty; and three illustrated by Matsubara, The Path of Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, vol. 2, Tokyo, 1995, pls. 476 a and b, and 477, all dated Northern Qi

A slightly earlier, but quite similar version of this figure, can be seen in the central figure of a stone stele dated to the Northern Wei dynasty, excavated at Luoyang and illustrated in Wenwu, 1984:5, pl. 4, fig. 3