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235

Chinese, northern Wei Dynasty

386 – 534

Votive figure of a seated Buddha. Early 5th century

Bronze cast, chased, front gilt. 29,2 × 13,3 × 6 cm (11 ½ × 5 ¼ × 2 ⅜ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Chinese, northern Wei Dynasty. Votive figure of a seated Buddha. Early 5th century.

Estimate:

EUR 20,000

 

- 30,000

USD 21,300

 

- 32,000

Sold for:

25,000 EUR (incl. premium)

Spring Auctions 2017

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 01.06.2017

Information

Bronze cast, chased, front gilt. 29,2 × 13,3 × 6 cm (11 ½ × 5 ¼ × 2 ⅜ in.). Weight: 1.553 g. Catalogue raisonné: With a thermo-luminescence-certificate for the centre of the cast provided by Oxford Authentication Ltd., no. C116r28, dated 8 December 2016, which provides an age of between 900 and 1500 years old.

Comparable objects: Qingyang Regional Museum Storage, Gansu, China (published in: Annette L. Juliano: Monks and Merchants. Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China paper. New York, 2001, cat. no. 55, p. 169) / private collection, Czech Republic (published in: Lubor Hájek: Chinesische Kunst. Prague, 1954, p. 63, ill. p. 131, plate V and title) / formerly in the Calligraphy Museum, Tokyo (published in: Jin Shen: Zhongguo lidai jinian foxiang tudian. Beijing 1994, ill. 48, then auction: Hong Kong, Christie's, 29. October 2014, cat. no. 502).

For kindly providing additional information we would like to thank Willibald Veit, former director of the Museum for Asian Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin..

Before 1954 collection of the art dealer Editha Leppich (1904–1992), Beijing and from 1948 Cologne / since 1992 private collection, south west Germany (acquired directly from the estate)

4000 Jahre Ostasiatische Kunst. Cologne, Galerie Editha Leppich, 1962, cat. no. 34, p. 13