Lot 129
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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VA… Read more COLLECTION OF MONSIEUR ROGER CHAMBARD (1904-1982) AMBASSADOR OF FRANCE IN SOUTH KOREA (1959-1969)
STATUETTE DE BOUDDHA ENFANT EN BRONZE DORE

COREE, EPOQUE DES TROIS ROYAUMES, VIIEME SIECLE

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STATUETTE DE BOUDDHA ENFANT EN BRONZE DORE
COREE, EPOQUE DES TROIS ROYAUMES, VIIEME SIECLE
Représenté debout sur un lotus épanoui, la main gauche le long du corps, la droite pointant le ciel, vêtu d'une jupe plissée ceinturée à la taille par un cordon, le torse nu, le visage souriant, les yeux mi-clos, les cheveux et l'usnisha coiffés en chignon, attache au dos de sa tête prévue pour un halo
Hauteur sans la tige du lotus: 13,5 cm. (5 3/8 in.)
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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF INFANT BUDDHA
KOREA, THREE KINGDOMS PERIOD, 7TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

This representation of the standing, newborn Shakyamuni pointing to the sky with his right index finger, and to the ground with his left hand is described in Asvaghosa's Life of Buddha translated by Samuel Beal, Sacred Books of the East, vol. XIX, Oxford, 1883, p. 226:
'Upright and firm and unconfused in mind, he deliberately took seven steps...he spoke thus with the fullest assurance: "This birth is in the condition of a Buddha; after this I have done with renewed birth: now only am I born this once, for the purpose of saving all the world'.

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