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尺寸：36.0 x 24.5 x 24.0 cm
年代：6世纪
质地：石雕
风格：中原
来源：美国弗利尔美术馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
这尊出自一千四百多年前的大势至菩萨头像，面携永恒的微笑，无论无明愚昧的众生对他都做了些什么，始终是那么慈悲安详的注视着、期待着。他高雅端庄。面庞圆润，五官舒展，精美大气。头戴宝冠，宝冠正中有一宝瓶，这是大势至菩萨的重要标志。大势至菩萨，又称大势菩萨或大精进菩萨，简称势至。是西方极乐世界教主阿弥陀佛的右胁侍者，阿弥陀佛与观世音菩萨和大势至菩萨合称为“西方三圣”或“阿弥陀三尊”。

Head of the Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta (Dashizhi)

Previous custodian or owner
Dikran Garabed Kelekian (1868-1951) (C.L. Freer source)
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919)

Provenance
To 1916
Dikran G. Kelekian (1868-1951), Cairo, Egypt, Paris, France, and New York to 1916 [1]
From 1916 to 1919
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), purchased from Dikran G. Kelekian, New York in 1916 [2]
From 1920
Freer Gallery of Art, gift of Charles Lang Freer in 1920 [3]

Notes:
[1] See Original Miscellaneous List, S.I. 916, pg. 204, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives.
[2] See note 1.
[3] The original deed of Charles Lang Freer's gift was signed in 1906. The collection was received in 1920 upon the completion of the Freer Gallery.