佛像网

尺寸：高25.1 cm
年代：9世纪
质地：黄铜嵌银
风格：克什米尔
来源：拍卖会
成交：170,500美元(2008.09)
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
A silver inlaid brass figure of Padmapani
Kashmir, 9th century

Standing over a lotus base upon a stepped plinth with his right hand raised clutching a rosary and his left holding a tall stem of a sixteen petalled lotus issuing from the base, wearing a long dhoti secured with a sash at his waist and a billowing shawl draped around his shoulders, further adorned with bracelets, a necklace, the sacred cord and large floral earrings, his silver inlaid eyes and arched eyebrows centered by a silver urna, surmounted by an elaborate foliate tiara and backed by a flaming arched mandorla

此像站立于莲座及叠涩式台基之上，右手上举，执持一串念珠；左手持一朵自底座生出的十六瓣莲花的高茎。身着长裙（dhoti），腰系圣带（sash），双肩披搭翻卷飘动的披帛。佩戴手镯、项链、圣线及大型花形耳珰。双目嵌银，弯眉之下，眉间白毫（urna）亦以银嵌。头顶饰以精致的花叶宝冠，身后为火焰纹拱形背光（mandorla）。

来源:
Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Manheim Collection, before 1974

著录:
E. Olson, Tantric Buddhist Art, 1974, cat. no. 1
U. von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, 1981, fig. 19B, p. 124

展览:
New York, China House Gallery, Tantric Buddhist Art, 1974, cat. no. 1

整体所呈现的克制、优雅、精炼的造型与和谐的比例，正是克什米尔成为重要佛教艺术中心之早期的典型特征。此时期的作品通常以黄铜合金铸造，并嵌银为眼。