STATUETTE DE BOUDDHA EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE DORÉ TIBET,... Lot 115

STATUETTE DE BOUDDHA EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE DORÉ TIBET, XVIIIE SIÈCLE Himalayan Art Resources item no. 33023 42.5 cm (16 3/4 in.) high Footnotes: A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF BUDDHA TIBET, 18TH CENTURY 西藏 十八世紀 銅鎏金阿彌陀佛像 Amitabha is arguably one of the most popular Buddhist deities to be worshipped in both the Himalayas and the Asian continent, second only to the historical Buddha Shakyamuni. His popularity stems from the proliferation of Mahayana sutras of which many are devoted to him. Of impressive scale and volume, Amitabha is rendered in his simplest form without ornamentation, donning the nirmanakaya ('body form') of Buddha in the most basic representation of his robe. Its fish-tail pleat, but otherwise invisible hemline, echoes the Tibetan 13th/14th-century interpretation of the classic Pala style. See a 12th century image of Shakyamuni in the Tsuglakang, Lhasa, published in von Schroeder, Buddhist Bronzes in Tibet, Vol. II, 2001, p. 1095, no. 282D. Supported by a single row of plump lotus petals, this figure would have been set on a separately cast throne or a niche representing a large tree or palace within the Western Heaven of Sukhavati. For a closely dated Shakyamuni image with similar proportions, face, and lotus base, see von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, 1981, p. 457, no. 126B. Provenance: Private Collection, USA Acquired in Kathmandu, early 1960s Bonhams, New York, 14 September 2015, lot 61 This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * * VAT on imported items at a reduced rate of 5.5% on the hammer price and the prevailing rate on buyer's premium if the item remains in EU. TVA sur les objets importés à un taux réduit de 5.5% sur le prix d'adjudication et un taux en vigueur sur la prime d'achat dans le cas où l'objet reste dans l'Union Européenne. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com