17th Oct, 2024 11:00
TWO-DAY AUCTION: Fine Asian Art, Buddhism and Hinduism
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A BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA, SRIVIJAYA, 8TH-9TH CENTURY
Sold for €31,200
including Buyer's Premium
Western Indonesia. Finely cast standing in a slight tribhanga, the right hand raised and held in vitarka mudra, the left lowered and clasped around the hem of the uttarasanga. The deity is dressed in a sanghati covering both shoulders and falling gracefully in neatly raised U-shaped folds. His face is cast with a serene expression, heavy-lidded downcast eyes with incised lids below arched brows, centered by a raised urna, the full lips forming a calm smile, flanked by long pendulous earlobes. The hair arranged in tight curls over the high ushnisha.
Provenance: An old private collection in Bali, Indonesia, by 1980. In 2021 by descent to the present owner.
Condition: Very good condition, commensurate with age. Ancient wear, casting irregularities, obvious losses, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations, nicks, a small dent to the neck. The bronze with a smooth, naturally grown patina with malachite and azurite encrustations.
Weight: 8,082 g (incl. stand)
Dimensions: Height 39.6 cm (excl. stand), 45.5 cm (incl. stand)
Srivijaya was a Buddhist thalassocratic empire based on the island of Sumatra (in modern-day Western Indonesia), which influenced much of Southeast Asia and was an important center for the expansion of Buddhism from the 7th to the 12th century AD. It also was the first unified kingdom to dominate much of the Malay Archipelago. Due to its location, the powerful state over time developed more and more complex technology utilizing maritime resources. The rise of the Srivijayan Empire was therefore also parallel to the end of the Malay seafaring period.
Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related copper alloy figure of Buddha granting boons, with similarly raised U-shaped folds, Western Indonesia, 8th century, 41 cm, exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century, 14 April – 27 July 2014, cat. no. 52. Compare a closely related copper alloy figure of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, with a related teardrop halo, Western Indonesia, 9th century, 34 cm, in the collection of the Musée Guimet, reference number MG3816, and exhibited ibid., cat. no 161.
Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 20 September 2006, lot 202
Price: USD 66,000 or approx. EUR 92,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A rare bronze figure of Avalokiteshvara, Thailand or Indonesia, Shrivijaya, 9th century
Expert remark: Compare the related subject and similar modeling of the face and size (44.5 cm).
Western Indonesia. Finely cast standing in a slight tribhanga, the right hand raised and held in vitarka mudra, the left lowered and clasped around the hem of the uttarasanga. The deity is dressed in a sanghati covering both shoulders and falling gracefully in neatly raised U-shaped folds. His face is cast with a serene expression, heavy-lidded downcast eyes with incised lids below arched brows, centered by a raised urna, the full lips forming a calm smile, flanked by long pendulous earlobes. The hair arranged in tight curls over the high ushnisha.
Provenance: An old private collection in Bali, Indonesia, by 1980. In 2021 by descent to the present owner.
Condition: Very good condition, commensurate with age. Ancient wear, casting irregularities, obvious losses, signs of weathering and erosion, encrustations, nicks, a small dent to the neck. The bronze with a smooth, naturally grown patina with malachite and azurite encrustations.
Weight: 8,082 g (incl. stand)
Dimensions: Height 39.6 cm (excl. stand), 45.5 cm (incl. stand)
Srivijaya was a Buddhist thalassocratic empire based on the island of Sumatra (in modern-day Western Indonesia), which influenced much of Southeast Asia and was an important center for the expansion of Buddhism from the 7th to the 12th century AD. It also was the first unified kingdom to dominate much of the Malay Archipelago. Due to its location, the powerful state over time developed more and more complex technology utilizing maritime resources. The rise of the Srivijayan Empire was therefore also parallel to the end of the Malay seafaring period.
Literature comparison:
Compare a closely related copper alloy figure of Buddha granting boons, with similarly raised U-shaped folds, Western Indonesia, 8th century, 41 cm, exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century, 14 April – 27 July 2014, cat. no. 52. Compare a closely related copper alloy figure of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, with a related teardrop halo, Western Indonesia, 9th century, 34 cm, in the collection of the Musée Guimet, reference number MG3816, and exhibited ibid., cat. no 161.
Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Christie’s New York, 20 September 2006, lot 202
Price: USD 66,000 or approx. EUR 92,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A rare bronze figure of Avalokiteshvara, Thailand or Indonesia, Shrivijaya, 9th century
Expert remark: Compare the related subject and similar modeling of the face and size (44.5 cm).
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