佛像网

尺寸：33 x 17.5 x 15.4 cm
年代：北齐(575年)
质地：大理石
风格：中原
来源：美国弗利尔美术馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
思惟像是5-6世纪北朝晚期，尤其是东魏至北齐时期， 中国佛教艺术中一度非常流行的形式。单体思惟像可能是首先流行于河北地区，并逐步传播影响至山东地区, 但只维持了比较短暂的时间，自隋以后逐渐少见。这尊石雕弥勒颠覆了对近代民间流传弥勒佛的样式，更富神性，整体造型元素丰富而匀称，姿态静逸而优雅，眉目清浅而祥和，虽在沉思冥想，但却从各个角度透露出平和自在。

这尊菩萨（觉悟者）像，表现的是未来佛弥勒（Maitreya） 在等待降生人间成佛之前的状态。弥勒在兜率天宫中的龙华树（Dragon Tree）下禅坐冥想，中国工匠通常将这种树理解为银杏树，正如这尊像所表现的。此像台座上刻有莲花池中生出孩童的形象，这在弥勒像中是十分罕见的细节。

The Bodhisattva Mile (Sanskrit Maitreya), seated in “Pensive Pose”

Provenance To 1911
Ta Ge Shang, Beijing, to 1911 [1]
From 1911 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Ta Ge Shang in 1911 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]
Notes:
[1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 308, pg. 76, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.

展览:
Encountering the Buddha: Art and Practice Across Asia (October 14, 2017 to February 6, 2022)
Promise of Paradise (October 14, 2017 - ongoing)
Buddhist Art (May 9, 1993 to August 9, 2011)
Studies in Connoisseurship 1923-1983 (September 23, 1983 to March 1, 1984)
Early Chinese Pottery and Scultpure, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1916 (March 6 to October 15, 1916)

来源:
Ta Ge Shang (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)