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15. SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA STATUETTE IN GILDED REPOUSSÉ COPPER AL…
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15. SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA STATUETTE IN GILDED REPOUSSÉ COPPER AL…
See original version (French)
Estimate €25,000 - €35,000
Voluntary lot
Description
15. SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA STATUETTE IN GILDED REPOUSSÉ COPPER ALLOY
Nepal, dated 1664
AN INSCRIBED GILT-COPPER REPOUSSÉ FIGURE OF SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA
Nepal, dated 1664
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 2863
Seated in dhyanasana on a double lotus base, with his right hand in bhumisparsha mudra and his left hand holding an alms bowl, his loose robes falling in generous folds around his legs and feet, his face with a serene expression, engraved around the base with a Sanskrit inscription dated in Samvat equivalent to 1664 AD.
32.5 cm (12 3/4 in.) high
Provenance:
An important European Collection.
Acquired from Koller, Zürich, by the father of the present owners (by repute), thence in the family by descent.
尼泊爾 1664年（據銘文） 鎏金銅錘揲釋迦牟尼像
來源
歐洲重要私人珍藏
現藏家之父得自闊樂拍賣行（傳），蘇黎世，後經家族流傳至今
The dedicatory inscription along the lower part of the pedestal identifies this Buddhist bronze as an image of the Vajrāsana Tathāgata and records that it was made in the year 1664. It was commissioned by a donor named Rubusiṅa as part of posthumous rituals performed on behalf of his deceased father. It is therefore plausible that the statue was offered to Siko Mugudi Monastery, where Rubusiṅa's father is said to have resided.
The inscription reads:
uṃ svastu saṃvat 785 pausalā gāka catudaśi kuhnu siko mugudi bāhāla che tapādevaju moka dina putra ruṃbusiṃṅana dakiryāyāta rācakaṃ, varja āsana tathāgata patimā dayakā juro || śubha |||
And may be translated as:
'Oṃ! May it be auspicious! Tapādevaju, the resident of the Siko Mugudi Buddhist monastery, passed away on the fourteenth day of the dark half of the Pauṣa month of [Nepal] Samvat 785 (CE 1664). Rubusiṅa, his son, commissioned this image of Vajrāsana Tathāgata in advance of the one-year death ritual.'
Bonhams would like to thank Dr. Yannick Laurent for the research and Gautama V. Vajracharya for the transliteration and translation.
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