6TH CENTURY

细节

A WHITE MARBLE SEATED FIGURE OF BUDDHA
6TH CENTURY
Seated in virasana, wearing loosely draped robes falling in soft folds around the body and over the edge of the tall waisted pedestal, the face with softly rounded features set in a gentle expression framed by the elongated earlobes and the line of the hair dressed in snail curls, the base of the pedestal with a pair of kneeling acolytes and lions flanking a lotus bud raised on a lotus-form plinth, and carved on the back with a band of lotus petals, with a small patch of iron on the back of the head, perhaps the remains of an iron pin for the attachment of a nimbus
11½ in. (29.1 cm.) high, wood stand

来源

Yamanaka & Co., New York, 1938.

拍品专文

The delicate, small facial features of this figure of Buddha are quite similar to those on another small white marble Buddha dated Northern Qi dynasty and illustrated by S. Matsubara, Chuugoku bukkyo chokokushi ron (The Path of Chinese Buddhist Sculpture), vol. 2, Late Six Dynasties and Sui, Tokyo, 1995, pl. 461 a,b,c. The style of the robes is also quite similar. This latter figure is partially painted, which would probably have been true of the present figure.