明十六世紀 銅局部鎏金普賢菩薩坐像

depicting the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, cast seated in dhyanasana holding a ruyi-head sceptre in the left and right hands, wearing a long floral-edged robe falling in folds around the legs and open at the chest to reveal elaborate ruyi beaded jewellery, the serene face with downcast eyes below high arched brows and a small smiling bud mouth, all framed by a high pierced five-pointed ruyi headress with the hair falling down around the shoulders, the face, chest, hands and feet gilt, all supported on a separate pierced and cast lotus and ruyi pedestal base 

倫敦佳士得1984年4月10日，編號281
（傳）Spink & Son， 倫敦，1985年

The figure and stand are in good condition with the exception of some old patching, possibly at the time of casting, to the rear of the figure including across the shoulder and down the right side of the back, minor casting flaws and pitting, minor loss to the tips of three of the lotus on the stand, and light rubbing and loss to the gilded decoration.
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本尊普賢菩薩坐像體型宏碩，面相與華貴寶冠皆見中原佛教造像風格。本像手持如意，依道家之說，可助眾生成就功名財祿。本尊普賢菩薩身披華袍、頭戴寶冠，此造型風格源於明中葉至後期，至今仍盛行於東亞地區。

如本品普賢菩薩持如意者，同類者甚稀，但見一較小類例，售於倫敦蘇富比1966年6月11日，編號141；另一例，無蓮花座，售於香港佳士得1989年1月16日，編號305。可比較一尊大日如來坐像，造型較大，佛面及台座與本尊相似，出自Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge收藏，售於紐約蘇富比1975年10月7至11日，編號236A；另一尊售於香港佳士得2011年6月1日，編號3770；紐約蘇富比曾於1984年3月16日售出一尊類近的觀音像，編號138。

普賢菩薩慈悲妙善，乃大乘佛教行願之象徵，常與智者文殊菩薩並列，持於釋尊右側。據傳普賢菩薩乘白象入中國，於四川峨眉山現相，後人將此山奉為普賢道場。