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The Property of Gotō Shinshudō
A RARE AND IMPORTANT GILT-BRONZE STANDING FIGURE OF BUDDHA
KOREA, UNITED SILLA PERIOD (AD 668-935), PROBABLY 8TH CENTURY
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A RARE AND IMPORTANT GILT-BRONZE STANDING FIGURE OF BUDDHA
KOREA, UNITED SILLA PERIOD (AD 668-935), PROBABLY 8TH CENTURY
Likely representing the Medicine Buddha, Yaka Yeorae, the figure is finely cast standing on a waisted lotus base raised on an integral octagonal plinth with open sides, with right hand raised in abhayamudra and the lowered left hand holding a flattened globular object, likely representing a medicine bowl or jar, and wearing a long diaphanous robe that falls in pronounced U-shaped folds down the front of the body from where it is draped below the neck and over the left shoulder. The hair is dressed in small curls that also cover the ushnisha. There is an opening in the back of the head and another oval opening in the back of the body.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
KOREA, UNITED SILLA PERIOD (AD 668-935), PROBABLY 8TH CENTURY
Likely representing the Medicine Buddha, Yaka Yeorae, the figure is finely cast standing on a waisted lotus base raised on an integral octagonal plinth with open sides, with right hand raised in abhayamudra and the lowered left hand holding a flattened globular object, likely representing a medicine bowl or jar, and wearing a long diaphanous robe that falls in pronounced U-shaped folds down the front of the body from where it is draped below the neck and over the left shoulder. The hair is dressed in small curls that also cover the ushnisha. There is an opening in the back of the head and another oval opening in the back of the body.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Mori Katsuji Collection, by 1917.
Mayuyama & Co., Tokyo, prior to 1983.
Mayuyama & Co., Tokyo, prior to 1983.
Literature
Government-General of Chosen, Chosen Koseki Zufu (Relic of Joseon Peninsula) vol. 5, March, 1917.
Matsubara Saburo, Kankoku kondobutsu Kenkyu (Study of Korean gilt bronze Buddhist figures), 1985, p. 96 a and b.
Nara National Museum, Imperial Envoys to Tang China: Early Japanese Encounters with Continental Culture, Nara, 2010, pl. 215.
Matsubara Saburo, Kankoku kondobutsu Kenkyu (Study of Korean gilt bronze Buddhist figures), 1985, p. 96 a and b.
Nara National Museum, Imperial Envoys to Tang China: Early Japanese Encounters with Continental Culture, Nara, 2010, pl. 215.
Exhibited
Nara, Nara National Museum, Imperial Envoys to Tang China: Early Japanese Encounters with Continental Culture, 2010.