拍品 6
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清乾隆二十五年(1760年) 御製木雕描金銘漢滿蒙藏文夔龍紋三連供龕

估價
80,000 - 120,000 HKD
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描述

  • wood
  • 46.3 公分,18 1/4 英寸
the tripartite screen supported on a tiered plinth, each section finely painted in gold with three sets of five bats amidst dense scrolling clouds, surrounding a medallion used for framing the head of a copper-alloy figure of Shakyamuni Buddha, all below a stylised angular scroll formed from pairs of kui dragons, the reverse inscribed with three sets of inscriptions in Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan, the base with additional inscriptions, reading tianzi sanhao ('Heaven number three') and shuzhi hao ('character shu')

Condition

There are typical age cracks and minor scratches and bruises. Possible minor areas of restoration at the fragile extremities. The inscription on the reverse is faded, as visible in the catalogue photo. Please note the colour in the catalogue photo is wrong. The design is not such a rich gold colour in reality.
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拍品資料及來源

每屏背面皆墨書漢、滿、蒙、藏文四體銘文,漢文銘文為「乾隆二十五年四月初九日欽命阿嘉胡土克圖認看供奉利益番銅琍瑪釋迦牟尼佛」,屏底墨書編號「天字三號」及「暑字號」。

此供龕乃御製木雕之罕品,出自清宮造辦處。造辦處成立於康熙朝,奉命營造宗廟、宮苑陳設佈置。乾隆年間,天子崇信其上師三世阿嘉胡土克圖諾柏多傑(lCang-skya Hutuktu,Rol-pa'i rdo-rje,1717-1786年),為聖督造佛像法器,時有躬親(見 Terese Tse Bartholomew,〈Sino-Tibetan Art of the Qianlong Period from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco〉,《Orientations》,1991年6月,頁34-45)。本件三連供龕每屏背面皆銘「乾隆二十五年四月初九日欽命阿嘉胡土克圖認看供奉利益番銅琍瑪釋迦牟尼佛」,複頌三遍,所述年份即公元1760年。

三世阿嘉胡土克圖乃蒙古喇嘛教領袖之一,為黃教格魯派最高轉世活佛,年青時與儲君乾隆同窗讀書,後獲倚重而任國師。公元1736年,乾隆登基,欽命阿嘉胡土克圖為大喇嘛常駐北京,至其圓寂,乾隆特修紫禁城中最大之藏傳密宗佛堂雨花閣以資紀念。至今雨花閣仍存一尊乾隆授命修造之銀作阿嘉胡土克圖像,及一對乾隆御筆追思輓聯(參見《清宫藏傳佛教文物》,香港,1992年,圖版36及112)。

另比較一尊鎏金銅阿嘉胡土克圖像,埃爾米塔日博物館蓄,錄於 Bartholomew 前述出處,圖版1。學者王家鵬於〈佛龕〉,《熱河佛教藝術》,台北,1999年,頁173f (中文)及頁258f (英文)一文中,言及乾隆皇帝多次授命製作供龕,以作供奉由蒙古皇族和西藏喇嘛所獻之佛像,而此等供龕均出自清宮養心殿造辦處。據王家鵬所言,多件故宮所藏乾隆朝佛教造像及繪畫均帶有與本品類同之銘文,應為阿嘉胡土克圖所獻,參見〈阿嘉胡土克圖像小考〉,《故宮博物院院刊》,1987年,編號4,頁48。其中一例,獻於1779年,錄前述出處《清宫藏傳佛教文物》,圖版35。