拍品專文
Previously sold in our London Rooms, 15 February 1971, lot 102.
Cloisonne enamel decorated gilt bronze figures of Buddhist deities are very rare, and this example is remarkably fine in the minute treatment detailing the robes and lotus stand. Compare with several other cloisonne enamel figures in the Clague collection, illustrated by Claudia Brown, Chinese Cloisonne, pls. 47 and 65, an acolytes and a monk, respectively; and to the figure of a panchen lama, Chinese Cloisonne: The Pierre Uldry Collection, fig. 346.
A cloisonne-decorated Amityus dated to A.D. 1770, in the Palace of Harmony, is illustrated in the Catalogue, Art Blooming Publishing Co., no. 173. Another example, a figure of Manjusri, is illustrated by Shen Zhiyu (ed.), The Shanghai Museum of Art, Cultural Relics Publishing, 1981, no. 231.
The Tibetan deity, Syamatara (the Green Tara) or Shengjiudufomu, is considered to a protector of women and children. In China, she is identified with Guanyin. For an earlier Ming bronze version from which the present lot was inspired, incised with the Xuande reign mark, see lot 1022.
(US$70,000-90,000)
Cloisonne enamel decorated gilt bronze figures of Buddhist deities are very rare, and this example is remarkably fine in the minute treatment detailing the robes and lotus stand. Compare with several other cloisonne enamel figures in the Clague collection, illustrated by Claudia Brown, Chinese Cloisonne, pls. 47 and 65, an acolytes and a monk, respectively; and to the figure of a panchen lama, Chinese Cloisonne: The Pierre Uldry Collection, fig. 346.
A cloisonne-decorated Amityus dated to A.D. 1770, in the Palace of Harmony, is illustrated in the Catalogue, Art Blooming Publishing Co., no. 173. Another example, a figure of Manjusri, is illustrated by Shen Zhiyu (ed.), The Shanghai Museum of Art, Cultural Relics Publishing, 1981, no. 231.
The Tibetan deity, Syamatara (the Green Tara) or Shengjiudufomu, is considered to a protector of women and children. In China, she is identified with Guanyin. For an earlier Ming bronze version from which the present lot was inspired, incised with the Xuande reign mark, see lot 1022.
(US$70,000-90,000)