17th Oct, 2024 11:00

TWO-DAY AUCTION: Fine Asian Art, Buddhism and Hinduism

 
  Lot 25
 

25

A LARGE COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF KSHITIGARBHA, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

Sold for €31,200

including Buyer's Premium


Lot details

China. Finely cast standing in tribhanga atop a circular double-lots pedestal, his left hand pendent and holding a myrobalan fruit. Wearing a diaphanous robe secured at the waist, falling in richly detailed pleated folds, and richly adorned with ornate jewelry neatly inlaid with gemstones.

His serene face is finely painted and gilt-lacquered, with heavy-lidded eyes, arched brows, and full bow-shaped lips, his hair arranged in thin rows and pulled up into an elaborate chignon topped by a jewel behind the paneled tiara.

Provenance: From a noted private collection in New York, United States.
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, casting irregularities, few shallow scratches, some inlays lost, rubbing to gilt and pigments.

Weight: 6.8 kg
Dimensions: Height 50 cm

Expert’s note:
The patinated dark brown bronze is common to revival workshops in China and Nepal of the 18th and 19th century. This group of sculptures most likely imitates the 11th-12th-century Nepalese form of Maitreya, who usually holds a waterpot instead of the myrobalan fruit, see for example a gilt-copper figure of Maitreya, 66 cm high, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1982.220.12. See also Weldon & Casey Singer, Sculptural Heritage of Tibet, London, 1999, p. 93, pl. 13. 

Literature comparison:
The present lot belongs to a group of near-identical figures notable for the simplistic treatment of jewelry, finely detailed braided chignon, and exaggerated tribhanga. Compare, for example, a Tibetan bronze figure of Maitreya, 50 cm high, dated before 1900, in the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, inventory number WM-29130.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Near identical
Auction: Bonhams Hong Kong, 2 October 2018, lot 97
Price: HKD 525,000 or approx. EUR 67,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A copper alloy figure of Kshitigarbha, Qing dynasty, 19th century
Expert remark: Compare the identical subject, modeling, manner of casting, and size (50 cm).

 

China. Finely cast standing in tribhanga atop a circular double-lots pedestal, his left hand pendent and holding a myrobalan fruit. Wearing a diaphanous robe secured at the waist, falling in richly detailed pleated folds, and richly adorned with ornate jewelry neatly inlaid with gemstones.

His serene face is finely painted and gilt-lacquered, with heavy-lidded eyes, arched brows, and full bow-shaped lips, his hair arranged in thin rows and pulled up into an elaborate chignon topped by a jewel behind the paneled tiara.

Provenance: From a noted private collection in New York, United States.
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, casting irregularities, few shallow scratches, some inlays lost, rubbing to gilt and pigments.

Weight: 6.8 kg
Dimensions: Height 50 cm

Expert’s note:
The patinated dark brown bronze is common to revival workshops in China and Nepal of the 18th and 19th century. This group of sculptures most likely imitates the 11th-12th-century Nepalese form of Maitreya, who usually holds a waterpot instead of the myrobalan fruit, see for example a gilt-copper figure of Maitreya, 66 cm high, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 1982.220.12. See also Weldon & Casey Singer, Sculptural Heritage of Tibet, London, 1999, p. 93, pl. 13. 

Literature comparison:
The present lot belongs to a group of near-identical figures notable for the simplistic treatment of jewelry, finely detailed braided chignon, and exaggerated tribhanga. Compare, for example, a Tibetan bronze figure of Maitreya, 50 cm high, dated before 1900, in the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, inventory number WM-29130.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Near identical
Auction: Bonhams Hong Kong, 2 October 2018, lot 97
Price: HKD 525,000 or approx. EUR 67,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A copper alloy figure of Kshitigarbha, Qing dynasty, 19th century
Expert remark: Compare the identical subject, modeling, manner of casting, and size (50 cm).

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