拍品专文
Lianhuashou Pusa, Padmapani (the Lotus Bearer), is a form of Guanyin, Avalokitesvara.
For a similar, but larger figure (25.5cm.), also incised with a Yongle mark, in the collection of the Chang Foundation, see Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993, pp. 114 - 115, no. 50. Both of these figures share a fineness of casting and attention to detail that is characteristic of Yongle mark and period gilt bronzes. These same qualities can be seen in the gilt-bronze figure of Amoghasiddhi Buddha, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, illustrated by R.N. Linrothe, 'Chinese Buddhist Sculpture in the Art Institute of Chicago', Orientations, June 1993, p. 83, fig. 8.
For a similar, but larger figure (25.5cm.), also incised with a Yongle mark, in the collection of the Chang Foundation, see Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993, pp. 114 - 115, no. 50. Both of these figures share a fineness of casting and attention to detail that is characteristic of Yongle mark and period gilt bronzes. These same qualities can be seen in the gilt-bronze figure of Amoghasiddhi Buddha, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, illustrated by R.N. Linrothe, 'Chinese Buddhist Sculpture in the Art Institute of Chicago', Orientations, June 1993, p. 83, fig. 8.