A stone Kagyu hierarch group, Tibet, circa 15th century
A stone Kagyu hierarch group
Tibet, circa 15th century
西藏 約十五世紀 石雕噶舉上師像
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 68478.
HAR編號68478
Height 2½ in., 6.5 cm.
Condition Report:
The carving and pigments are well preserved. There are small losses including 0.5cm loss to a head at the lower left and another 0.3cm loss to a head at the top. Minor surface scratches.
Because this lot was imported into the United States after September 1, 2020, it is subject to an import tariff of 7.5% of the value declared upon entry into the United States. $4,500.00, plus applicable sales tax will be included on your invoice unless you instruct Sotheby's to arrange shipping of the lot to a foreign address. For more information on the import tariff, please review the Symbol Key in the back of the catalogue. If you have any questions, please contact tariffs@sothebys.com.
由於本拍品在 2020年9月1日之後進口到美國，所以買家可能需就本拍品支付進口關稅，金額為拍品進口美國當時申報價值的7.5％。除非您要求蘇富比安排運送拍品到美國境外之地址，否則發票上將包括4,500.00美元以及相關的銷售稅。如欲查詢進口關稅的更多信息，請查閱目錄背面的附錄。如有任何疑問，敬請聯繫tariffs@sothebys.com。
Catalogue Note:
The master’s cap is a type worn by the Karmapa and Sharmapa lineages of the Kagyu order, with upturned lappets, a visvavajra at the front, and an emblem above depicting the sun and a crescent moon. The lama is dressed in monastic robes with what appears to be a purba secured in the waist band, and is seated on a lion throne with hands folded together holding a gem-filled kapala. A large dharmachakra wheel is placed before the throne. The bodhisattva Manjushri appears beneath flanked to the left by a tantric adept wielding a purba, a Kagyu lama to the right, and two monks beneath. The carving represents a mountain setting with peaks enveloped in clouds above, a diminutive figure of Buddha at the apex flanked by bodhisattvas, and monks and Kagyu lineage holders surrounding the central figure.
The cloud design at the apex of the carving and the style of the central figure suggest a date of around the fifteenth century. Fine grained beige stone carvings are rare in Tibet during this period but a similar colored stone is used in a thirteenth century Tibetan carving of Vaishravana which is identified as possibly phyllite, see Ulrich von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, Hong Kong, 2001, vol. II, pp 894-95, pl. 207C. Compare a fourteenth or fifteenth century Tibetan stone figure of Acala in Gilles Béguin, Art sacré du Tibet: Collection Alain Bordier, Paris, 2013, cat. no. 55. See also a miniature ivory roundel formerly in the Wesley and Caroline Halpert Collection, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (acc. no. 2003.495) (fig.1), that depicts a Kagyu hierarch surrounded by Kagyupa lineage holders and deities, Marylin M. Rhie and Robert A. F. Thurman, Wisdom and Compassion:
The Sacred Art of Tibet, Tokyo, 1997, p. 139.
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A stone Kagyu hierarch group
Tibet, circa 15th century
西藏 約十五世紀 石雕噶舉上師像
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 68478.
HAR編號68478
Height 2½ in., 6.5 cm.
Condition Report:
The carving and pigments are well preserved. There are small losses including 0.5cm loss to a head at the lower left and another 0.3cm loss to a head at the top. Minor surface scratches.
Because this lot was imported into the United States after September 1, 2020, it is subject to an import tariff of 7.5% of the value declared upon entry into the United States. $4,500.00, plus applicable sales tax will be included on your invoice unless you instruct Sotheby's to arrange shipping of the lot to a foreign address. For more information on the import tariff, please review the Symbol Key in the back of the catalogue. If you have any questions, please contact tariffs@sothebys.com.
由於本拍品在 2020年9月1日之後進口到美國，所以買家可能需就本拍品支付進口關稅，金額為拍品進口美國當時申報價值的7.5％。除非您要求蘇富比安排運送拍品到美國境外之地址，否則發票上將包括4,500.00美元以及相關的銷售稅。如欲查詢進口關稅的更多信息，請查閱目錄背面的附錄。如有任何疑問，敬請聯繫tariffs@sothebys.com。
Catalogue Note:
The master’s cap is a type worn by the Karmapa and Sharmapa lineages of the Kagyu order, with upturned lappets, a visvavajra at the front, and an emblem above depicting the sun and a crescent moon. The lama is dressed in monastic robes with what appears to be a purba secured in the waist band, and is seated on a lion throne with hands folded together holding a gem-filled kapala. A large dharmachakra wheel is placed before the throne. The bodhisattva Manjushri appears beneath flanked to the left by a tantric adept wielding a purba, a Kagyu lama to the right, and two monks beneath. The carving represents a mountain setting with peaks enveloped in clouds above, a diminutive figure of Buddha at the apex flanked by bodhisattvas, and monks and Kagyu lineage holders surrounding the central figure.
The cloud design at the apex of the carving and the style of the central figure suggest a date of around the fifteenth century. Fine grained beige stone carvings are rare in Tibet during this period but a similar colored stone is used in a thirteenth century Tibetan carving of Vaishravana which is identified as possibly phyllite, see Ulrich von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, Hong Kong, 2001, vol. II, pp 894-95, pl. 207C. Compare a fourteenth or fifteenth century Tibetan stone figure of Acala in Gilles Béguin, Art sacré du Tibet: Collection Alain Bordier, Paris, 2013, cat. no. 55. See also a miniature ivory roundel formerly in the Wesley and Caroline Halpert Collection, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (acc. no. 2003.495) (fig.1), that depicts a Kagyu hierarch surrounded by Kagyupa lineage holders and deities, Marylin M. Rhie and Robert A. F. Thurman, Wisdom and Compassion:
The Sacred Art of Tibet, Tokyo, 1997, p. 139.
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