LIANG DYNASTY, DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO THE SECOND YEAR OF TAIQING, CORRESPONDING TO AD 548

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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF STANDING AMITHABA
LIANG DYNASTY, DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO THE SECOND YEAR OF TAIQING, CORRESPONDING TO AD 548
5 in. (12.6 cm.) high, lacquered wood stand, Japanese wood box

Provenance

Chang Foundation Collection, Taipei, by 1993.

Literature

Chang Foundation, Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993, pp. 48-9, no. 17.
Chang Foundation, Treasures from the Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1996, p. 44, no. 4.
Chang Foundation, Chinese Treasures from the Chang Foundation, Tokyo, 2001, p. 76, no. 83.
Jin Shen, Haiwai ji Gangtai cang lidai foxiang: zhenpin jinian tujian (Catalogue of Treasures of Buddhist Sculptures in Overseas Collections Including Hong Kong and Taiwan), Shanxi, 2007, p. 453.

Exhibited

Taipei, Chang Foundation, Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, 1993, no. 17.
Beijing, National Museum of Chinese History, Treasures from the Chang Foundation, 1996, no. 4.
Tokyo, Shoto Museum of Art; Obihiro, Hokkaidoritsu Obihiro Art Museum; Shimonoseki, Shimonoseki City Art Museum, Chinese Treasures from the Chang Foundation, May-October 2001, no. 83.

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Lot Essay

A similarly depicted figure of Buddha shown surrounded by a petal-shaped aureole can be seen centering a smaller (8.3 cm. high) gilt-bronze triad of slightly earlier, Northern Wei (AD 386-534) date, illustrated in the catalogue for the Museum Yamato Bunkakan, Nara, exhibition, East Asian Gilt Bronze Buddhist Figures, 1999, p. 40, no. 20. This figure was subsequently sold in Treasures of the Noble Path: Early Buddhist Art from Japanese Collections; Christie’s New York, 14 September 2017, lot 802.

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