现场拍卖 2811The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF THE MEDICINE BUDDHA
拍品 1962THE PROPERTY OF A CHINESE GENTLEMAN

A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF THE MEDICINE BUDDHA

已结束2010年5月31日

成交价

HKD 740,000

是否考虑出售类似藏品？

通过我们的专家免费评估服务，了解其价值。

更多信息

如何委托拍卖

A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF THE MEDICINE BUDDHA
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

Seated in dhyanasana on a raised double-lotus base, an alms bowl in his left hand and the medicinal fruit held in his lowered right hand, wearing a lattice-work robe open at the chest with incised borders falling in elegant pleats at his ankles, his face with a benign expression centred by an urna, the tightly coiled hair rising over the usnisha and topped by a finial, richly gilt overall
8 1/8 in. (21.6 cm.) high, box

专家说明

The medicinal fruit has been identified as Terminalia chebula, commonly known as myrobalan or arura in Sanskrit, and is used in the ayurvedic system as an astringent, anti-inflammatory and to heal wounds and scalds.

The hand of the Medicine Buddha that holds the myrobalan fruit is extended over the right knee with the palm upward in a gesture of supreme generosity. In his left hand he holds the begging bowl. Whether the worshipper's sickness is caused by a physical ailment or by a lack of contentment, the Buddha offers two paths by which to overcome it.