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A SILVER INLAID COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
SWAT VALLEY, CIRCA 8TH CENTURY?Together with an associated backplate of the same period.Himalayan Art Resources item no.16913 5 1/8 in. (13 cm) high
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斯瓦特?約八世紀 銅錯銀菩薩像??Full of joyful details, this sweet bronze depicts a bodhisattva musing on a tiered rocky throne in the 'Pensive Bodhisattva' pose. He is joined by a recumbent goat in the bottom left corner, a lion in the centre, and a kneeling devotee in the bottom right (perhaps an effigy of this icon's ancient patron). A leafy vine grows from the rock and up the front of the throne. The bodhisattva has an idealized physique, clad in a lower garment that twists and pools with sumptuous pleats. The lotus flourishing at his right shoulder is as alert as his eyes are enlivened by silver inlay.???Nestled in the foothills of the Hindu Kush mountain range, at the crossroads of the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia, Swat Valley was an important locus for the spread of Buddhism between India, the Western Himalayas, and East Asia. Swat Valley's small corpus of bronzes reflects an intriguing synthesis of aesthetic modes from the art of the Kushans, Guptas, and Sasanians: powerful empires which once wielded influence over the region. These bronzes also exhibit exciting precedents for the artistic schools of Kashmir, Gilgit, and Guge.??This lot's stylistic features are matched by other Swat Valley bronzes from the same period. A similar treatment of the stylized rocky base, consisting of L-shaped sections, is represented in a bronze Padmapani at the Cleveland Museum of Art (von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, pp.84-5, no.6F). His fan-shaped chignon, crown, ribbons, and diamond-shaped armbands are close to another Padmapani figure held in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (see Pal, Bronzes of Kashmir, New Delhi, 1975, pp.138-9, no.47). Also see Christie's, New York, 23 March 1999, lot 13.??The current bronze is also related to a group of 7th-8th?century sculptures attributed by von Schroeder to the Zhang?Zhung?Kingdom of Western Tibet (Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet,?Vol.II, Hong Kong, 2001, pp.782-7, nos.185-7). Known as the?center?of Tibet's Bon religion, Zhang?Zhung?was ruled by the Tibetan Empire from the 7th?to 9th?centuries and Buddhism was presumably introduced from Central Tibet. Von Schroeder argues the considerable number of early Western Himalayan bronzes preserved in Tibetan Monasteries indicate that the greater Swat and Kashmir region had tremendous influence on Tibet during the first propagation of Buddhism, which also explains the stylistic resemblance between this Zhang?Zhung?group and contemporaneous Western Himalayan sculptures. Two bronzes from this group have a rocky base like the present lot's, with lions, goats, and leafy plants in front (ibid., 186A & 187C). Also compare their densely pleated lower garments and sashes (ibid., 185A, C, & 186A).???Provenance?Bodhicitta Inc., New York, 5 February 2004?Private West Coast Collection