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尺寸：高25.2cm
年代：18世纪
质地：铜鎏金
风格：北京
来源：拍卖会
成交：687,500港元(2017.10)
参阅：香港苏富比
鉴赏：
来源
纽约苏富比1983年12月7日，编号88
古比特佛像网, 编号: 尊胜佛母031
埃斯卡纳齐古董行，伦敦
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尊胜佛母，顶戴宝冠，与无量寿佛、白度母合称密宗长寿三尊。据蒋扬钦哲旺波（1820-1892年）所述，尊胜佛母「身色净白如秋月，三面八臂，正面白色，右面黄色，左面蓝色，每面皆各具三目。其右第一手持十字羯磨金刚杵，二手持白莲座，上为阿弥陀佛，三手持箭，四手作施愿印；左第一手忿怒拳印持绢索，二手执弓，三手作施无畏印，四手持甘露宝瓶；珍宝严饰自身，足结金刚跏趺坐。右侧月上为白色观音菩萨，左手持莲花；左侧日上为蓝色普贤菩萨，左手持青莲花及金刚杵。两者身披天衣，佩饰璎珞，庄严而立，左右胁侍。」

此尊胜佛母像应以西藏例为模，参考一尊十七至十八世初西藏中部尊胜佛母像雏例，载于王家鹏，《清宫秘藏：承德避暑山庄藏传佛教文物》，台北，1999年，页92，图版26。 西方收藏之鎏金铜尊胜佛母像，可见多伦多皇家安大略博物馆藏一尊十八世纪西藏佛像，载于喜玛拉雅艺术资源网，编号77551。另有一中原例子，属比利时 J.P.H.Y. 收藏，载于乌尔里希．冯．施罗德，《Indo-Tibetan Bronzes》，香港，1981年，图版157C。

A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF USHNISHAVIJAYA
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
seated in vajraparyankasana on a double-lotus base with a beaded upper edge, with the primary of her eight hands held in dharmachakramudra, clad in a loose dhoti with finely detailed floral borders and billowing scarves entwined around the shoulders and arms, the chest and arms adorned with elaborate beaded jewellery, each of the three faces with three eyes and a serene expression, all below an intricate floral diadem enclosing the high coiffed double top-knot

Provenance
Sotheby's New York, 7th December 1983, lot 88.
Eskenazi Ltd, London.

Catalogue Note
Ushnishavijaya, 'Victorious Crown Ornament', the goddess of long-life, is one of three special long-life deities along with the Buddha Amitayus and White Tara. Together they are known as the Three Long-life Deities of Tantric Buddhism. In the words of Jamyang Kyentse Wangpo (1820-1892), Ushnishavijaya is “the colour of an autumn moon; with three faces, white, yellow and blue and eight hands. Each face has three very large eyes. The first right hand holds a visvavajra, second a white lotus with Amitabha residing, third an arrow and the fourth in supreme generosity. The first left holds a vajra lasso, second a bow, third bestowing protection and fourth in meditative equipoise holding an auspicious nectar vase; complete with silks and jewel ornaments, seated in [vajra] posture. Within the outer circle of the stupa, on the right [side of the chaitya], above a moon is Avalokiteshvara with a body white in colour; the left hand holds a lotus. On the left [of the chaitya], above a sun is Vajrapani, blue; the left hand holds an utpala with vajra; standing in a peaceful manner and adorned with silks and jewels.”

A Central Tibetan prototype, a bronze figure of Ushnishavijaya from the 17th/early 18th century, is illustrated by Wang Jiapeng, Buddhist Art from Rehol. Tibetan Buddhist Images and Ritual Objects from the Qing Dynasty Summer Palace at Chengde, Taipei, 1999, p.92, pl. 26. The current figure closely adheres to the Tibetan example.

For gilt-bronze figures of Ushnishavijaya in Western collections, see an 18th century Tibetan figure in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, illustrated on Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 77551, and a Chinese figure from the J.P.H.Y. collection, Belgium, illustrated by Ulrich von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, pl. 157C.