A gilt bronze figure of Buddha Shakyamuni. In the style of the Wei dynasty
Seated in meditation on a square base with waisted central section. Both hands placed on top of each other, with the backs of the hands facing the viewer. The monk's robe covers the whole body in numerous parallel folds. The high coiffure is marked by a large swirl above the forehead and below the ushnisha. Behind the figure a nimbus and a high petal-shaped aureole. At the front and back of the socle a seated Buddha flanked by donor figures, at the sides lion masks, at the back of the aureole Shakyamuni and Prabhutaratna facing each other.
Height 28.8 cm
魏朝風格 銅鍍金釋迦摩尼坐像
展覽：四千年東亞藝術史，科隆，1962年 (被提及)
文獻：Editha Leppich編，《四千年東亞藝術史》，1962年, 頁3，編號34 (此處斷代為魏朝)
來源：科隆/萊茵河畔林茨Editha Leppich (1904–1992) 收藏
德國西南部私人收藏， 購自以上遺產
證書：海格洛赫-韋爾多Ralf Kotalla實驗室, TL-鑒定書，編號1871224，2001年7月18日，粘土樣品最後燒製時間為1500 (+/-400) 年前
旺塔奇Oxford Authentication Ltd.，編號C116r28，2016年12月20日，年齡鑒定結果為900 至1500 年
Certificate
Laboratory Ralf Kotalla, TL-expertise no. 1871224, dated 18.7.2001, calculates the last firing date of the clay samples 1500 (+/-400) years ago.
Oxford Authentication Ltd., Wantage, no. C116r28, dated 20.12.2016, gives an age of 900 to 1500 years
Provenance
Editha Leppich (1904–1992), Cologne/Linz a. R.
Private collection, Southwestern Germany, acquired from the above estate in 1992
Literature
Cf. almost identical piece illustrated in Lubor Hajek, Chinese Art, Prague 1954 (5th ed.), pp. 63-64, fig. 132 and colour plate V (height 29 cm; dated c. 400 CE) and in: Jin Shen, Zhongguo lidai jinian foxiang tudian, Beijing 1994, p. 76, fig. 49 (dated c. 480).
A very similar figure, dated into the first half of the 5th century, formerly housed in the Shodō hakubutsukan (Calligraphy museum) in Tokyo, sold at Christie's, Hong Kong, 29.10.2001, lot 502 and again at Christie's, New York, 20.3.2014, lot 1602.
Exhibitions
Editha Leppich, 4000 Jahre Ostasiatischer Kunst. Exhibition, Cologne 1962, p. 13, no. 34, without ill. (here dated Wei Dynasty)