Lot 10
A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA JAVA, CIRCA 9TH CENTURY
29 March 2018, 16:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific PlaceHK$300,000 - HK$500,000
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A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
JAVA, CIRCA 9TH CENTURY
16 cm (6 ¼ in). high
16 cm (6 ¼ in). high
Footnotes
爪哇 約九世紀 菩薩銅像
Provenance:
Mark Gordon Collection, Singapore
Private Collection, Singapore, acquired in 2000
Finely cast with a powerful frame, a broad face and a serene contemplative expression, this haloed Bodhisattva is adorned with a crown of small leaves and hair dressed to form a taller rounded mitre. He is seated with four arms, holding a rosary and conch in the upper hands while the lower hands support a bell and manuscript.
Compare the overall proportions to a silver figure of Tara held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (acc. no. 1987.142.12) with similar Pala-inspired Javanese armbands, necklace and crown, and formerly part of a triad, see Lerner & Kossak, The Lotus Transcendent, New York, 1991, no.141, p.182.