明 释迦牟尼铁佛坐像

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明 释迦牟尼铁佛塑像

参考：佳士得
19 3月 2014| 现场拍卖 3484
般若妙相：虔诚信仰艺术精品
拍品 1613
A BRONZE FIGURE OF THE SEATED AMIDA BUDDHA
日本镰仓时代 铜阿弥陀佛坐像
JAPAN, KAMAKURA PERIOD, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

成交价 USD 545,000
估价 USD 500,000 – USD 700,000

日本镰仓时代 铜阿弥陀佛坐像
JAPAN, KAMAKURA PERIOD, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

出版
Tanabe Saburosuke, “Seated Amida,” in Nenge misho Buddha’s Smile: Masterpieces of Japanese Buddhist Art, edited by London Gallery, Tokyo, 2000, cat. no. 13.

展览
Nenge misho Buddha’s Smile: Masterpieces of Japanese Buddhist Art, Okura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2000.
Nenge misho II Buddha’s Smile II: Transcending Time and Space, Fukui Fine Arts Museum, 2010.

拍品专文
In describing this meditating Buddha, Tanabe Saburosuke, a professor at Musashino Art University, singles out the elegant quality of the small mouth and lowered eyes. He points to the subtle modulation of the robe wrapped around the shoulders and the precise modeling of the body (see Tanabe Saburosuke, “Seated Amida,” in Nenge misho Buddha’s Smile: Masterpieces of Japanese Buddhist Art, edited by London Gallery, Tokyo, 2000). The sense of harmony and stability combines the best of late Heian with the greater realism of the Kamakura period. Worship of Amida (Sanskrit, Amitabha) Buddha arose in the late Heian period among both aristocracy and the general populace in hopes of attaining entry to his Western Paradise.

As is typical of most bronzes from this period, the body is cast in several pieces. Here, the section from the right shoulder to the left hand is separately cast, the joint scarcely visible. The figure originally would have been placed on a lotus pedestal. For another Kamakura-period seated bronze Amida with similar casting technique, see Kuno Takeshi, Butsuzo meihin shin-hakken (Newly discovered masterpieces of Buddhist sculpture), Tokyo, 2008, pl. 6. For a smaller 12th-century example of a seated bronze Amida from Daigoji Temple, Kyoto, registered as an Important Cultural Property, see Kondo butsu: Tokubetsuten Special Exhibition: Gilt-bronze Buddhist Statues, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 218.

As Professor Tanabe points out, Buddhist icons such as this one were separated from their original context during the persecution of Buddhist temples in the Meiji period in the late nineteenth century and then again in the period of turmoil in the late 1940s and 1950s, following the Pacific War.

參考：國立故宮博物院 阿彌陀佛坐像

資料識別：
贈銅000296N000000000
資料類型：銅器、金屬器
描述：本尊阿彌陀佛像頭髻帶有漩渦紋，置禪定印，袈裟於胸前柔軟的垂下呈U字形，線形順暢圓潤，面容和藹慈祥，頸部短闊，雙腳盤膝，整體呈現穩重的高三角形狀，彷彿悠遊於禪思冥想的自在世界中。日本古時的金銅佛的制作，通常用蠟形製造法，因此在佛像的背面，會留有空心的洞，可見蜜蠟的痕跡，也可以看見塑形以及笄的設置。
日期：1185 A.D.-1336 A.D.or later
格式：像長15.3公分 寬9.4公分 高20.3公分 重1244.2公克

参考：故宫博物院【铁罗汉像】
　　

铁罗汉像，明弘治十年（1497年）造，高117厘米，宽74厘米。
　　
罗汉前额突出，长眉，眉间有白毫，双眼略向下视，鼻直口方，耳垂阔大。双手残，身穿袈裟，结跏趺坐。袈裟前右下铸阳文“大明弘治丁巳年造，太监姚举施”13字铭文。该像原应有座，现已失。
　　
这是一尊由太监姚举出资铸造的罗汉像，至于施主的具体情况现已无从查考。太监信佛，历朝皆有，如唐朝著名太监高力士曾多次向寺院布施，但如明朝信佛太监之众却比较少见。从《日下旧闻考》等文献中可知京城及其附近的许多庙宇都与太监有关，如北京大钟寺博物馆所藏明代铜钟，由太监捐钱铸造者为数不少，涉及人数约在百人以上；故宫博物院所藏一件明朝泥塑人物像，原藏北京房山上方山兜率寺，明万历间，司礼兼掌印太监冯保等人曾施舍重建该寺，据传该像便是冯保供养像。太监尊崇佛教，除本身笃信佛教、期冀来世人性不再被扭曲外，更重要的是向帝后邀宠。有明一代，帝后信佛者不乏其人，太监投其所好，许多发愿文中都明确写有奉为某某皇帝、皇后敬造，或者皇帝万岁万万岁等字样，而相应的寺额则多为皇帝所赐，由此可见太监们的施舍得到了一定的回报。

撰稿人：冯贺军
关键词： 罗汉 白毫 结跏趺坐 阳文 丁巳 发愿文

参考：拍卖结果
纽约苏富比亚洲艺术周秋季拍卖会
週末拍场：亚洲艺术
日本 二十世纪 铁佛坐像

估价：1,000-1,500 USD
未成交
尺寸：
高27.3cm

参考：LOT 86 STATUE DE BOUDDHA AMIDA EN BOIS LAQUE OR
JAPON, EPOQUE KAMAKURA (1185-1333)
Price realised
EUR 104,500

Estimate
EUR 35,000 – EUR 45,000

STATUE DE BOUDDHA AMIDA EN BOIS LAQUE OR
JAPON, EPOQUE KAMAKURA (1185-1333)
Il est représenté assis en vajrasana,ses mains en dhyanamudra. Il est vêtu d’une robe monastique plissée. Son visage est serein, ses yeux mi-clos incrustés, le front décoré d’un urna incrusté et les lobes d’oreille allongés. Les cheveux bouclés sont coiffés en chignon agrémentés de l’ushnisha et du ratna incrusté.
Hauteur : 38 cm. (15 in.)

Provenance

Private American collection, acquired in Japan in the late 1940s (by repute).
The sculpture may have been on loan at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (by repute).
Private French collection, acquired from Shirley Day in New York, 21 March 2008.

Lot Essay
A radiocarbon dating test (Paleo Lab, Japan, Reference RCPL/16/055) dated 6 July 2016, consistent with our dating, is available on request.

Post Lot Text

A GILT-LACQUERED WOOD FIGURE OF BUDDHA AMIDA
JAPAN, KAMAKURA PERIOD (1185-1333)