A SILVER AND COPPER INLAID COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF AMITABHANORTHEASTERN INDIA, PALA PERIOD, 12TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no.16721
10 cm (4 in.) high注脚Delicately inlaid with silver and copper, this sweet figure of Amitabha is treated with the level of technical refinement characteristic of the pinnacle of Pala bronze sculpture in the 11th and 12th centuries. The figure is set into a separately cast shallow lotus base with a projecting tang at the back, indicating that it probably belonged to a superstructure that included the Five Presiding Buddhas. A similar figure of Vairocana (Sotheby's, New York, 28 October 1991, lot 132) has an identical base and has the same inlaid features, most likely belonging to the same larger structure. Pala bronzes of Vajradaka in the Jokhang, Lhasa, and Heruka in the Potala Palace, also have the same bases with broken projecting tangs (von Schroder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, Vol I., 2001, pp.296 and 300, nos. 99A-B and 101A-B).

Provenance
Doris Wiener, New York, 18 August 2000
Collection of Drs. Edmund and Julie Lewis, Chicago


錯銀錯紅銅阿彌陀佛銅像
印度東北部，帕拉時期，十二世紀
喜馬拉雅藝術資源網16721號
高10釐米（4英吋）

80,000-120,000港幣

此尊阿彌陀佛像恬靜和藹，做工精緻，表面以銀與紅銅鑲嵌，體現出帕拉造像在十一與十二世紀時達到鼎盛的鑄造技藝。佛像身下的蓮花座單獨鑄造而成，後方帶有一榫，表明其或屬於一件呈現五方佛的大型造像組。蘇富比曾售出一尊大日如來像（紐約，1991年10月28日，拍品132）與其相近，二者蓮花座及表面鑲嵌極為相似，或許皆出自同一大型構造。拉薩大昭寺藏能食空行像以及布達拉宮藏赫魯嘎像均有同樣斷榫之底座（馮·施羅德，《西藏佛教造像》，卷一，2001年，頁296與300，編號99A-B以及101A-B）。

來源
Doris Wiener，紐約，2000年8月18日
Edmund與Julie Lewis醫生珍藏，芝加哥