A RARE LARGE GILT-BRONZE VOTIVE FIGURE OF PADMAPANI NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY, FOURTH YEAR OF THE YONGPING PERIOD, CORRESPONDING TO 511 AD | 北魏永平四年（511年） 鎏金銅蓮華手觀音立像

A RARE LARGE GILT-BRONZE VOTIVE FIGURE OF PADMAPANI
NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY, FOURTH YEAR OF THE YONGPING PERIOD, CORRESPONDING TO 511 AD
北魏永平四年（511年） 鎏金銅蓮華手觀音立像

well cast standing in abhanga on a lotus pedestal base, the left hand holding a stem and the other grasping a flask, the slender body dressed with a diaphanous dhoti and long scarf draping over the shoulders and upper arms, the face with a pensive expression below hair gathered in a high chignon, against a mandorla festooned with a circular halo with radiating lotus petals and swirling flames extending to the pointed tip, all supported on a four-legged platform adorned with floral motifs, inscribed to the back of the stand and continued to one side with a partially decipherable dedicatory inscription, dated to the fourth year of the Yongping period (511 AD)
Height 29 cm, 11⅜ in.

Condition Report:
There is overall wear to the rich gilding on the base and mandorla, and particularly to the figure's head, arms and legs. There is a series of horizontal ridges across the tip of the flame, both to the front and back and associated losses to the gilding. There are losses to the metal to one corner of one of the front legs of the base and losses and dents to the metal on one back corner and to both back legs of the base.

This figure was also exhibited in Ancient Chinese Bronze Vessels, Gilt Bronzes and Early Ceramics, Christian Deydier Oriental Bronzes Ltd, London, 1986, cat. no 12.

中文內容僅供參考，請以英文原版為準。背光及底座鎏金見磨損，佛首及四肢處尤為明顯。火焰狀背光尖頂處見些許橫向劃痕。正面及背面均可見，并見相關鎏金缺損。底座前部一足見一處磕缺區域，背部一角及底座後足處均見些許缺損及凹痕。

此像曾展於《Ancient Chinese Bronze Vessels, Gilt Bronzes and Early Ceramics》, 戴克誠，倫敦，1986年，編號12。

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Provenance:
Vicomte de Bragelogne, Paris.

Eskenazi Ltd., London.

Vicomte de Bragelogne，巴黎

埃斯卡納齊，倫敦