Bodhisattva, förgylld brons. Mingdynastin (1368-1644).
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Gjuten sittandes i dhyanasana hållandes en ruyistav i sina händer, klädd i en löst svepande dhoti elegant kantad med blomsterdekor i relief som är knuten med öppning vid bröstet som är rikt behängt med smycken. Ansiktet med nedslagen blick, höga ögonbryn, liten mun allt krönt av en stor genombruten krona framför en hårknut i hög chignon. Insidan med järnröd konsekreringsfärg. Höjd 51 cm.
Förgyllningen med slitage.
Proveniens
From the Collection of Heidi Boyce Broström (1943-2022) and Dan Axel Broström (1915-1976).
Dan Axel Broström was the third-generation ship-owner in the prestigious Broström Company group. When he took over the firm in 1949 they had 18 000 employees.
The Canadian model and geologist Heidi was Dan-Axel Broströms third wife, the couple lived at the fashionable Särö, a few miles south of Gothenburg.
The images depicted in the catalogue is from their home at Särö.
Utställningar
Compare a slightly smaller, later, Chiristes, lot 18, 7 nov 2017, Sale 13982. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art.
Compare one, that is partly gilded lot no 130, sold at Sothebys, Important Chinese Art, 09 November 2016 • London, Sale Number: L16212.
Compare a smaller Guanyin at the Metropolitan Museum, Rogers Fund, 1912. Accession Number: 12.37.160
Litteratur
Stylistically this figure follows in the sculptural tradition of the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), when Tibetan Buddhism became the court religion. The Mongol court intensified political, religious and artistic contacts with Tibet, which resulted in the emergence of a new style of Buddhist art. With the founding of the Ming dynasty, Tibetan-Buddhist sculptures continued to exert a strong influence, and under the patronage of the Yongle Emperor (r. 1403-1424), Tibetan and Nepalese artisans were employed in Beijing to furnish the halls and palaces in the newly-established capital.
Övrig information
Avalokitesvara is the most popular bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism, and is known in China as Guanyin, short for Guanshiyin (The one who perceives the sounds of the world). As the earthly manifestation of Amitabha Buddha, his crown features an image of a meditating Amithaba. Guanyin is described in Chapter 25 of the Lotus Sutra, first translated in Chinese in AD 286, where the bodhisattva is referred to as Lokesvara (Lord of the world) and Lokenath (Lord and protector of all beings). In this text, Buddha describes Guanyin as the one who compassionately provides release and deliverance to all those that suffer.
