SUI DYNASTY (581-618)

细节

A STONE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
SUI DYNASTY (581-618)
The standing figure shown holding an amphora in the left hand, wearing a cape over the shoulders, necklaces, long beaded chains and scarves drawn through a ring below the waist where they fall in deep graceful curves atop the pleated skirt of the dhoti and then loop up over the arms, the hair also dressed with beaded chains and framed by long flowing scarves tied in bows on either side, the flat back simply carved with the folds of the cape and pleats of the skirt, the mottled stone with grayish-brown patina
19 in. (48.2 cm.) high, wood stand

拍品专文

A Sui stone bodhisattva flanked by disciples in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated to the 3rd year of Kaiwang (AD 583), with similarly flat depiction of the pleats and related headdress, is illustrated by Saburo Matsubara, Chuugoku Bukkyo Chokokushi Ron (The Path of Chinese Buddhist Sculpture), Japan, 1995, vol. 2, Late Six Dynasties and Sui, pl. 522a. See, also, the grey stone Sui figure of a bodhisattva holding a flask illustrated in Matsubara, ibid., pl. 587a.

Compare, also, the similar figure of larger size (29 in. high) sold in these rooms, 20 - 21 March 1997, lot 351.