Reflection and Enlightenment: Chinese Buddhist Gilt-Bronzes from the Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection

Reflection and Enlightenment: Chinese Buddhist Gilt-Bronzes from the Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection

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A gilt-bronze figure of a Buddhist disciple Tang dynasty | 唐 鎏金銅尊者立像

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October 12, 12:42 PM GMT

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60,000 - 80,000 HKD

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A gilt-bronze figure of a Buddhist disciple

Tang dynasty

唐 鎏金銅尊者立像


the richly gilded figure depicting a young Buddhist disciple standing on a plain lotus pod, his countenance childlike and benevolent with a bald head, suggesting that the figure may represent a youthful Ananda, depicted slender with hands recoiled near the chest and holding a plain circular alms bowl, clad in robes loosely draping around the body with the chest revealed, the face flanked by a pair of long earlobes

h. 7.6 cm

J.J. Lally & Co., New York, June 2010.


藍理捷，紐約，2010年6月

Leopold Swergold, Thoughts on Chinese Buddhist Gilt Bronzes, Aventura, 2014, cat. no. 22.

Beatrice Chan, 'Reflection and Enlightenment: Chinese Buddhist Gilt Bronzes from the Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston', Arts of Asia, January/February 2018, pp. 58-65.


Leopold Swergold，《Thoughts on Chinese Buddhist Gilt Bronzes》，2014年，圖版22

Beatrice Chan，〈Reflection and Enlightenment: Chinese Buddhist Gilt Bronzes from the Jane and Leopold Swergold Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston〉，《Arts of Asia》，2018年1至2月，頁58-65

This richly gilded figure depicts a young Buddhist disciple. His distinct characteristics, including the youthful face with a bald head, long earlobes and quiet countenance, positioned standing on a plain lotus pod, suggest that the figure may represent a youthful Ananda, the primary attendant of Shakyamuni Buddha. A similar example in Harvard Art Museum, bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop (accession no. 1943.53.66), is illustrated in Leopold Swergold, Thoughts on Chinese Buddhist Gilt Bronzes, Aventure, 2014, cat. no. 14.