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尺寸：12.4 cm
年代：8-9世纪
质地：黄铜嵌银
风格：斯瓦特
来源：拍卖会
成交：175,000美元(2021.03)
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鉴赏：
A COPPER- AND SILVER-INLAID BRONZE FIGURE OF PADMAPANI LOKESHVARA
SWAT VALLEY, 8TH-9TH CENTURY

来源:
Collection of James and Marilynn Alsdorf, Chicago, by 1981.
Sotheby’s New York, 23 March 2000, lot 21.

著录:
U. von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, pp. 84-85, cat. no. 6B.
P. Pal, A Collecting Odyssey: Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art from the James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago, 1997, pp. 132, 309-10, cat. no. 169.
Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 24606.

This widely published figure of Padmapani Lokeshvara displays classic stylistic elements from Swat Valley, including the almond-shaped eyes with delicate silver inlay, the pronounced modeling of the muscles around the navel with powerful upper torso, and the accentuated roundness of the beaded jewelry. A diminutive figure of Amitabha is visible on the crown of the head, further confirming the identity of the bodhisattva. The back of the lotus base bears an inscription.

Prototypes of the unusual double-lotus throne with overlapping petals in the Swat Valley can be seen as early as the seventh century, including a bronze figure of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, acc. no. 2012.247, as well as a contemporaneous Swat bronze figure of Avalokiteshvara offered at Bonhams Hong Kong, 2 October 2018, lot 14.

Compare the distinctive physiognomy, the right hand raised in varada mudra and the tiered lotus base of the current work with further contemporaneous bronzes depicting bodhisattvas, illustrated by U. von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, pp. 84-85, cat. nos. 6A, 6C—6E.

这尊广为发表的莲花手观音像展现了斯瓦特谷地的经典风格元素，包括杏仁状眼睛及精致的银嵌饰、强壮上半身所凸显的脐周肌肉雕琢，以及珠串饰物饱满的圆润感。头顶可见阿弥陀佛小像，进一步确认了此菩萨的身份。莲座背面刻有铭文。

斯瓦特谷地这种花瓣重叠的异形双层莲座，其原型最早可追溯至七世纪，例如大都会艺术博物馆藏的一尊观音菩萨铜像（馆藏号2012.247），以及邦瀚斯香港于2018年10月2日拍卖的一尊同时期斯瓦特谷地观音铜像（拍品14号）。

本件作品独特的相貌特征、右手施予愿印的姿式以及层叠莲座，可与更多同时期菩萨铜像进行比较，参见U. von Schroeder着《Indo-Tibetan Bronzes》，香港，1981年，第84-85页，图版编号6A、6C至6E。