唐珍收藏
拍品编号：0187
估价：GBP40,000—60,000
成交价：175,000
拍卖时间：2019-11-06 上午11:30
拍卖地点：伦敦
拍卖公司：伦敦蘇富比
简介：详情
PROPERTY FROM A DANISH PRIVATE COLLECTION
丹麦私人收藏
A RARE GILT-BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF A DAOIST DEITY
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
清十八世纪 鎏金铜道教神仙坐像
well-cast, seated with both hands raised in an animated gesture, dressed in a long fluid robe with finely incised ruyi scroll borders falling in voluminous folds over the legs, tied at the waist with a double knot, the well-defined face with a gentle smile, framed by neatly adorned hair gathered up in a Daoist lotus cap and a long pointed beard
拍品状况
图录资料
来源
Collection of Astrid Ibsen-Sørensen (1892-1987), collected in China before 1936.
In the family by descent.
Astrid Ibsen-Sørensen （1892-1987年）收藏，于1936年以前购自中国，此后家族传承
相关资料
This rare and well-cast figure most likely depicts one of the Three Purities (Sanqing), the embodiment of the Dao and the three highest deities in the Daoist pantheon. The Sanqing developed from the tripartite division of the celestial realms and first emerged in the Tang dynasty (618-907), when attempts were made to group Daoist deities in a coherent system. The Quanzhen sect (Complete Realisation sect) of Taoism understood the deities as representing the Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning (Yuanshi tianzun), the Celestial Worthy of Numinous Treasure (Lingao tianzu), and the Celestial Worthy of the Way and Its Power (Daode tianzun). As manifestations of the Three Energies and rulers of the Three Caverns (Sandong), they are considered the source of all life and knowledge, see Stephen Little, Taoism and the Arts of China, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2002, pp. 229-231.
Gilt-bronze figures of the Sanqing from the Qing dynasty are unusual, and examples are more commonly known attributed to the Ming period (1368-1644). Compare for example a smaller seated figure of deified Laozi, also identified as the Celestial Worthy of the Way and Its Power, dated by inscription to 1438, and signed Chen Yanqing (active 15th century), in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, included in the Museum’s exhibition Wisdom Embodied. Chinese Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2010, cat. no. 38, and sold at Christie’s New York, 21st November 1995, lot 493; another signed Chen Chanqing, sold at Christie’s London, 10th December 1979, lot 45; and a third, identified as the Celestial Worthy of Numinous Treasure, and attributed to the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), sold twice at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1st May 2000, lot 751, and 29th November 2005, lot 1608.
拍品分类：佛教文物>佛教文物其它
拍卖会：2019年11月拍卖会
拍卖专场：重要中国艺术
预展时间：2019年11月4日-5日
预展地点：伦敦
