明永樂 鎏金銅隨身藥師佛坐像 《大明永樂年施》款

finely cast and depicted seated in vajraparyankasana on a double-lotus pedestal with beaded edges, the deity rendered holding in his left hand a bowl filled with myrobalan fruit and clad in a pleated robe draped over the left shoulder and cascading in voluminous folds near the feet, further depicted with a serene meditative expression below thin arched brows and an urna, surmounted by hair arranged in rows of small whorls and a bud-shaped ushnisha, flanked by a pair of pendulous earlobes pierced with vertical slots, the front of the lotus base incised with a six-character reign mark, the base sealed with a plate and incised with a double-vajra

本像尺寸小，為隨身佛像。藥師佛結跏趺坐於蓮花臺，手持缽盛訶梨勒果，鎏金厚重，鑄工精巧，輪廓、軀體、佛袍及蓮座刻劃細緻，尺寸小巧，方便隨身攜帶。

比較一例，明永樂鎏金銅藥師佛坐像，造形相同，惟尺寸遠較本品為大（27.7公分），售於紐約佳士得2014年3月20日，編號1624。

另比較一鎏金銅例，佛呈靜思之狀，尺寸相同，也帶永樂年款，圖載於 Robert Bigler，《Art and Faith at the Crossroads》，蘇黎世，2013年，編號28。