尺寸：高17.3cm
年代：宋代
质地：合金铜
风格：中原
来源：拍卖会
成交：391,000元(2019.11); 437,500港元(2017.04)
参阅：中国嘉德 香港苏富比
鉴赏：
菩萨双目微闭，凝神平视。右手上抬，手握经书，自在坐于莲花座，座下长柱连接狮子背上；狮子昂首阔步，壮健雄伟，张口作怒吼状，更衬托了菩萨的安详持重。菩萨面庞饱满，丰颊阔目，有唐代造像之遗风。整像刀工稳健利落，线条流畅，富艺术美感。狮背覆一锦垫，以鱼籽地花卉纹装饰，体现了晚唐以金银器装饰图案装饰器物之风。总之，此像神采奕奕，细节丰富，富有时代特征。与本像尺寸和形制上几乎完全一致的两尊文殊骑狮像分别收藏于上海博物馆以及美国克利夫兰美术馆，其中上海博物馆所藏憾失底座，更显此像难得。

参阅：美国克利夫兰美术馆藏，合金铜文殊骑狮像（高17cm），John L. Severance Fund 1974.90
古比特佛像网, 编号: 文殊菩萨311

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF SIMHANADA MANJUSHRI
SONG DYNASTY
cast seated in lalitasana with the right leg raised, the right arm raised before the chest, wearing loose robes falling into voluminous folds, the serene face flanked by a pair of long pendulous ears and crowned by a five-leaf diadem, riding on a lotus flower supported on a caparisoned Buddhist lion with its head turned to its left, its large bulging eyes, thick eyebrows and mane meticulously rendered, all raised on a stepped rectangular base with four bracketed feet
17.2 cm, 6 3/4 in.

品相报告:
As visible in the catalogue photo, there is extensive malachite-green encrustation to the surface. The left hand is broken off, and there is also a small break to the support below the lotus base, and a minute loss to the tail. Other general bruising and surface wear.

Catalogue Note
The structure and composition of this figure is closely related to a bronze figure of the bodhisattva Samantabhadra, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated as one of a pair, together with the bodhisattva Manjusri in Zhongguo meishu quanji. Diaosu bian [The complete collection of Chinese art: Sculptures], vol. 5, 1989, Beijing, pls 153-4. Compare also a bronze figure of the bodhisattva Samantabhadra from the collection of Sakamoto Goro, sold in these rooms, 5th October 2016, lot 3222.

See also a smaller Tang dynasty gilt-bronze prototype, previously exhibited at the Kubuso Museum, Japan, 1993, sold in our New York rooms, 20th March 2007, lot 735.