清乾隆 彩釉釋迦牟尼坐像

modelled in the form of Sakyamuni Buddha seated in vajraparyankasana, the right hand held in bhumisparshamudra and the left in dhyanamudra, clad in an brightly enamelled pleated robe draped over the left shoulder with the white undergarment gathered at the chest and cascading in folds near the bare feet, rendered with a downcast and serene countenance with an urna between his eyebrows, flanked by a pair of long pendulous earlobes, the hair finely incised and rendered with a domed usnisa below a jewel, the exposed skin of the Buddha applied with a bronze-brown glaze to simulate the patina of a bronze original, the reverse pierced with a circular aperture

盧芹齋，巴黎

The figure is in overall good condition with minor retouching to the fragile extremities, including the left eyelid and the tip of the left earlobe.
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坐佛造型碩大，妙以醬釉仿銅色，典雅莊嚴。乾隆一朝，高宗尤好仿模之品，鼓勵匠人研技創思、巧工奇製。時精品雖層出不窮，然瓷質佛像塑形非易、燒製艱困，成品應不多，僅供宮廷佛堂等用。

原盛京行宮瀋陽故宮博物院藏一尊乾隆年製瓷質仿銅坐佛，圖見《瀋陽故宮博物院藏文物精粹：瓷器卷（上）》，瀋陽，2008年，頁217。相類瓷質佛坐像，也可參考南京博物院藏品，錄於《宮廷珍藏：中國清代官窰瓷器》，上海，2003年，頁322。另見香港蘇富比2001年10月29日拍出之粉彩觀世音菩薩坐像，編號606。另有一例，同屬盧芹齋舊藏，曾展於《Exhibition of Chinese Arts》，盧芹齋，紐約，1941-42年，編號750。胡惠春舊藏且有一例，售於紐約蘇富比1985年6月4日，編號70。