A Gild Copper Buddha Statue
雪堆白佛像
Ht.17cm Wd.11cm
In the 17th century, Tibetan Buddhist art entered a new historical stage. The official workshop Snowdrift White is specially designed for the Dalai Lama and his local government to cast artifacts. Xueduibai is located at the foot of the Potala Palace in Lhasa. It is an industry organization under the Kashag local government in Tibet. It specializes in making and supplying Buddhist artifacts needed by the Kashag government. It is not only a workshop for the creation of Tibetan Buddhist artifacts but also for the entire Tibet, it's a management agency of the handicraft industry. Xueduibai has a technology called ancient copper burning, which has always been its unique ability to treat the surface of the copper. It makes the newly-made Buddha statues look moist, rich in patina, and antique, which is quite close to the effect of long-term oxidation just as this statue of Saraha.
17世紀，藏傳佛教藝術進入了全新的歷史階段。官方作坊雪堆白專為達賴喇嘛及其地方政府鑄造法物，經過不斷嘗試創新，形成獨特的雪堆白造像。雪堆白位於拉薩布達拉宮腳下，是西藏噶廈地方政府下屬的行業組織，專門承做和供應噶廈政府所需要的佛教法物，既是一個承造藏傳佛教法物的作坊，也是整個西藏手工業的管理機構。雪堆白有一種叫銅燒古的技術，一直是其處理表面銅色的絕活，使新造的佛像看起來色彩潤澤，包漿深厚，古香古色，與經過長時期氧化的效果相當接近，此拍品這尊造像就屬於最後一類中的作品。