拍品 118
  • 118

明初 木雕加彩觀音立像

估價
40,000 - 60,000 USD
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描述

  • POLYCHROME WOOD
carved standing wearing monastic robes over a dhoti and inner garment, with floral borders and falling in voluminous folds from the arms and about the body, opening at the chest to reveal a ruyi-form torque, a five-pointed diadem centered with a standing Buddha crowning the bodhisattva

來源

Katherine Thayer Hobson (1889-1982) 收藏,1917年得於柏林,此後家族傳承

Condition

There is an early vertical filled repair to the face, with some associated losses to the lips and loss to one of the crown points. There are vertical age cracks to the front and losses to the left shoulder and arm, as illustrated in the catalogue. The hands and feet are lost, and is loss to the hair above the shoulders. The polychrome was possibly added later and has extensive flaking losses, especially to the back. Overall with scattered losses, wormholes, and age cracks, as indicated in the photograph. There are a few small old paper label remnants to the back of the crown. The figure is fixed on a wood base.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
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拍品資料及來源

Images depicting Guanyin with a five-pointed crown are not the most common portrayal of this bodhisattva. A figure in a five-pointed crown depicting each of the five Dhyani Buddhas, paired with monastic robes, is the typical representation of another of the most popular bodhisattvas in Chinese culture, Ksitigarbha, or Dizangwang. Compare several other polychrome wood figures of Guanyin in similar adornment, one attributed to the Yuan dynasty and sold in these rooms the 23rd September 1997, lot 163; and another attributed to the Yuan / early Ming dynasty illustrated in Chinese Buddhist Sculpture, Eskenazi, London, 1997, cat. no. 16.

The later-added pigments and elaborate decoration to the robes is related to those later added to a group of carved wood Yuan dynasty arhat figures from northern Shanxi province illustrated in Ancient Chinese Sculptural Treasures: Carvings in Stone, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, 1998, cat. nos 16-26.