Monochrome III

Monochrome III

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A limestone figure of a bodhisattva Sui dynasty | 隋 石灰岩雕菩薩立像

Auction Closed

April 22, 03:40 AM GMT

Estimate

350,000 - 450,000 HKD

Lot Details

Description

A limestone figure of a bodhisattva

Sui dynasty

隋 石灰岩雕菩薩立像


portrayed standing holding an amphora in the left hand, adorned with necklaces, a medallion, long beaded chains and scarves drawn through a ring below the waist, the headdress ornamented with beaded chains and ribbons that hang down and frame the angular face with broad flat nose and prominent lips, backed by the remnants of a halo, mounted on stand

h. 40.6 cm

Collection of Egon Zerner, and thence by descent.

An Ohioan private collection.

Sotheby's New York, 17th September 2014, lot 420.


Egon Zerner 收藏,此後家族傳承

俄亥俄州私人收藏

紐約蘇富比2014年9月17日,編號420

Die Sammlung Egon Zerner, Berlin, 1924, cat. no. 31.


《Die Sammlung Egon Zerner》,柏林,1924年,編號31

The present lot shares features of Sui dynasty sculpture from Shaanxi province, such as the oversized head with a squarish jaw, deeply grooved eyebrows, prominent lips, a slight hint of a waist above the ring through which the scarves are drawn, and elaborate jewelry draped over a rigid upright body. A larger example is illustrated in Rene-Yvon Lefebvre d'Argence, Chinese, Korean and Japanese Sculpture in the Avery Brundage Collection, Tokyo, New York, 1974, no. 76; and other examples are also illustrated in Osvald Sirén, Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century, vol. 3, New York, 1925, pls 265, 266A, 267A and 268B. A figure of similar proportions was sold at Christie's New York, 19th September 2006, lot 138.