Skip to main content
Bonhams
Search

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

A rare Chinese group of the Tyrolean Dancers, Qianlong period, circa 1752
FOUR CHINESE YIXING WARES Late Qing dynasty - 20th century

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

FIVE BURMESE AND THAI GILTWOOD FIGURES OF BUDDHA Late 19th/20th century
TWO JAPANESE CELADON GLAZED STUDIO CERAMICS
Huang Shanshou (1855-1919) Dragons in Clouds
Birodo Yuzen Meiji era (1868-1912)
TWO JAPANESE BRONZE SCHOLAR'S OBJECTS Meiji/Taisho era
A KOREAN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'GRAPEVINE' GLOBULAR JAR Late Joseon dynasty
A JAPANESE SIX-PANEL 'FARM SCENE' FOLDING SCREEN Late 19th/early 20th century
A KOREAN FOUR-PANEL 'PEONIES AND CALLIGRAPHY' FOLDING SCREEN Late Joseon dynasty
AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL 'LADIES' SNUFF BOTTLE, SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN 1919
A CHINESE YELLOW GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE 19th century
A FAMILLE-ROSE ENAMELED PORCELAIN COVERED BALUSTER JAR 18th/19th century
A PAINTED LACQUERED-WOOD FOUR-DOOR CABINET Early 20th century
Previous Lot
Next Lot
A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA NEPAL, 17TH CENTURY image 1
A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA NEPAL, 17TH CENTURY image 2
Lot 1037

A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA
NEPAL, 17TH CENTURY

Images of Devotion
30 November 2022, 18:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific Place

Sold for HK$633,000 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA

NEPAL, 17TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 4739
30.3 cm (11 7/8 in.) high

Footnotes

尼泊爾 十七世紀 銅鎏金釋迦牟尼像

The soft demeanor of this seated Buddha with his gaze held in spacious equanimity together with his right hand touching the base, recalls the moment when the earth was called to pay witness to his enlightenment. While the lotus base with its separately cast lower half affixed on the interior is typical of Nepalese conventions during the 17th century, its modelling echoes earlier prototypes of Pala designs blended with those of East Asian fashions.

The robes laid across the chest with a fishtail pleat placed high over his left shoulder and the beaded and foliated decorations at the hemline reference an early Malla style adapted from the Pala influences coming from India, as epitomized in a 13th century Vajrasana Buddha image from the Early Malla period (see Bonhams, New York, 23 September 2020, lot 611). The robe, specifically where it drapes over the right shoulder, is a detail more commonly seen in Chinese Buddhist bronzes produced during the 15th century of the Ming dynasty. For examples see an example published in, Buddhist Statues of Tibet, 2003, p. 235, no. 224, another sold at Sotheby's, Paris, 15 December 2016, lot 129, and a third which derives from early Chinese aesthetics associated with the Northern Qi Dynasty (550-77), as illustrated on a seated Buddha image published in Watt, China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 2004, fig. 89.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A rare Chinese group of the Tyrolean Dancers, Qianlong period, circa 1752
FOUR CHINESE YIXING WARES Late Qing dynasty - 20th century
FIVE BURMESE AND THAI GILTWOOD FIGURES OF BUDDHA Late 19th/20th century
TWO JAPANESE CELADON GLAZED STUDIO CERAMICS
Huang Shanshou (1855-1919) Dragons in Clouds
Birodo Yuzen Meiji era (1868-1912)
TWO JAPANESE BRONZE SCHOLAR'S OBJECTS Meiji/Taisho era
A KOREAN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'GRAPEVINE' GLOBULAR JAR Late Joseon dynasty
A JAPANESE SIX-PANEL 'FARM SCENE' FOLDING SCREEN Late 19th/early 20th century
A KOREAN FOUR-PANEL 'PEONIES AND CALLIGRAPHY' FOLDING SCREEN Late Joseon dynasty
AN INSIDE-PAINTED ROCK CRYSTAL 'LADIES' SNUFF BOTTLE, SIGNED YE ZHONGSAN 1919
A CHINESE YELLOW GLASS SNUFF BOTTLE 19th century
A FAMILLE-ROSE ENAMELED PORCELAIN COVERED BALUSTER JAR 18th/19th century
A PAINTED LACQUERED-WOOD FOUR-DOOR CABINET Early 20th century