拍品 3006
  • 3006

北齊皇建二年(561年) 象牙雕一佛二菩薩造像

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500,000 - 700,000 HKD
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描述

  • ivory
meticulously carved in the form of Sakyamuni Buddha standing on a lotus pedestal against a flame-shaped mandorla atop a splayed four-legged plinth, the deity depicted with the right hand held in abhaya mudra and flanked by his two disciples, Ananda and Kasyapa, the central figure rendered framed by a circular halo with radiating petals and the disciples with flame-shaped mandorlas, all below scrollwork simulating flames to the upper section of the mandorla, the splayed sides and reverse of the plinth incised with a dedicatory inscription dated to the eighth day of the fourth month of the second year of the Huangjian reign (in accordance with 561) and can be translated as 'Buddhist disciple, Lu Luohe patronising a figure for his parents, with the hope of a spiritual union'

來源

仇焱之(1910-80年)收藏,此後家族傳承

拍品資料及來源

銘文:
皇建二年四月八日佛弟子魯洛和為上父母造像一,又為合門大小恭之同心。

此象牙佛像,雕工精緻入微,釋迦牟尼佛佇立中央,弟子阿難與迦葉伴兩旁。據刻文,乃佛弟子魯洛和於皇建二年(561年)為父母恭造。尺寸類同之北齊佛像,多為銅製,至於較為碩大之例,則多為石製,採象牙而雕者極罕,遍查文獻,公私收藏未見有類似佛像。與前朝相同,牙雕之形和飾,與當時青銅、玉器類近,但牙雕易朽,傳世極稀,昔時所製牙雕數量何如,現已無從稽考。

福格藝術博物館藏北齊銅像,也是佛立中央,二弟子立兩旁,神姿同樣祥和自然,下承方座也與此相類,錄於松原三郎,《中国仏教彫刻史論》,東京,1995年,圖版402a。另見一尊石雕佛像,兩旁站阿難與迦葉,但尺寸較此大,出處同上,圖版417a。

象牙材料珍貴,高古之時已有採用,以製藝作巧具。然牙之易朽,僅次於木,不及金石之堅,是以古代牙雕,大多難敵歲月無情,再不復存。1976年安陽晚商婦好墓出土一盒,內除象牙、玉器、孔雀石及貝殼外,有一嵌松綠石象牙盃,盃身取觚之形,獸紋作鋬,通體以松綠石拼湊成青銅器上常見獸面紋,整體造型與禮祭吉金一脈相承,觀其盃大飾巧、傲存千載,雖有腐損,已屬難得。

商代以後,縱有牙雕,也難倖存。如戰國牙作,僅少數傳世,紋飾多與玉器類。魏晉南北朝至李唐間所製牙雕,傳世亦罕,若為墓葬,現幾乎盡歸塵土,除個別例子,唯罕獲宮廷珍藏者,才得以流芳後世,如日本奈良正倉院,所貯牙雕甚豐,計有骰子、撥子、 刀把鞘、尺子及橫笛等。