拍品 403
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日本 十六 / 十七世紀 佛祖涅槃 設色絹本

估價
35,000 - 45,000 USD
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描述

  • ink on canvas
ink and color on silk, mounted in brocade as a hanging scroll, depicting Buddha lying peacefully on a raised platform beneath flowering sala trees, surrounded by a large grieving crowd with enlightened bodhisattvas standing serenely by, while some animals and oni are so overcome with grief they roll around on the ground, Buddha's mother Mahamaya hastens down from the upper right corner accompanied by an entourage

來源

日本私人收藏,1970年代

Condition

Visible vertical centerfold, as viewed, has had minor consolidation along the fold. Several visible horizontal creases are consistent with age and stable. Rubbing and paint loss to blue pigment in the sky and green pigments in the upper foliage. Framed in silk brocade border.
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拍品資料及來源

The commemoration of Buddha's parinirvana is one of the most important events in the Buddhist calendar, marking the final of the eight major events in his life. Commemorated with special ceremonies on the 15th day of the second month, large painted images of the Buddha entering the 'ultimate' nirvana, death of the physical body and freedom from the cycle of birth and rebirth, appeared as the focus of such ceremonies from the Nara period (710-794) onwards. The present painting follows the standard stylistic and iconographic conventions of earlier paintings as can be seen from the earliest surviving examples dating to the Heian period.

Shakyamuni Buddha’s parinirvanahas been depicted in sculpture and paintings since very early on in India. The purpose of such depictions is to help devotees put things into perspective by reminding them that all beings die, and that nothing is permanent. Everything is subject to decay and final reunification with the cosmos.  

There are many extant examples of such paintings in temples and museums. The oldest known piece dating to the 11th century, is a national treasure housed in Kongobuji in Koyasan, while a 12th century example is in the Tokyo National Museum. There are 14th century examples in the Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Koln and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Zaigai Nihon no shino, I Bukkyo kaiga, Tokyo, 1980, nos. 8-10. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has four such paintings, including a woodblock print on the subject.