Important Chinese Art including Jades from the De An Tang Collection and Gardens of Pleasure – Erotic Art from the Bertholet Collection

Important Chinese Art including Jades from the De An Tang Collection and Gardens of Pleasure – Erotic Art from the Bertholet Collection

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 3608. An extremely rare and important limestone seated figure of a 'Pensive' Maitreya Northern Wei Dynasty, early 6th century | 北魏六世紀初 石灰岩雕交腳思惟菩薩像.

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An extremely rare and important limestone seated figure of a 'Pensive' Maitreya Northern Wei Dynasty, early 6th century | 北魏六世紀初 石灰岩雕交腳思惟菩薩像

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An extremely rare and important limestone seated figure of a 'Pensive' Maitreya

Northern Wei Dynasty, early 6th century

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北魏六世紀初 石灰岩雕交腳思惟菩薩像


61 cm

Collection of Arthur B. Michael, Newton Center, MA (bequest of 1942).

Collection of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, no. 1942:16.210.

Sotheby's New York, 20th March 2007, lot 503.

Collection of Norman A. Kurland.

Eskenazi Ltd, London.


Arthur B. Michael 收藏,Newton Center,麻薩諸塞州 (1942年遺贈)

奧爾布賴特.諾克斯美術館收藏,紐約水牛城,編號1942:16.210

紐約蘇富比2007年3月20日,編號503

Norman A. Kurland 收藏

埃斯卡納齊,倫敦

Andrew C. Ritchie, Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture in the Permanent Collection, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, 1949, p. 212, no. 209.

Steven A. Nash, with Katy Kline, Charlotta Kotik and Emese Wood, Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942, Buffalo, 1979, pp. 84-85.


Andrew C. Ritchie,《Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture in the Permanent Collection》,奧爾布賴特美術館,水牛城,1949年,頁212,編號209

Steven A. Nash、Katy Kline、Charlotta Kotik 及 Emese Wood,《Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Painting and Sculpture from Antiquity to 1942》,水牛城,1979年,頁84-85

Far Eastern Art in Upstate New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, Albany, Utica, Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo, 1976-1977, cat. no. 21 (illustrated).

Six Dynasties Art from the Norman A. Kurland Collection: Part Two, Eskenazi Ltd, London, 2018, cat. no. 17.


《Far Eastern Art in Upstate New York》,康乃爾大學強生美術館,綺色佳、奧爾巴尼、由提卡、雪城、羅徹斯特及水牛城,1976-1977年,編號21(插圖)

《Six Dynasties Art from the Norman A. Kurland Collection: Part Two》, 埃斯卡納齊,倫敦,2018年,編號17