Property of a Gentleman 士紳珍藏
An important and magnificent pair of grey limestone figures of Bodhisattvas, Mahasthamaprapta and Avalokiteshvara, Early Tang dynasty, era of Empress Wu Zetian | 唐初高宗至武周時期 石灰岩雕大勢至與觀世音菩薩立像一對
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Property of a Gentleman
An important and magnificent pair of grey limestone figures of Bodhisattvas, Mahasthamaprapta an𝓰d Ava𝓡lokiteshvara
Early Tang dynasty, era of Empress Wu Zetian
士紳珍藏
唐初高宗至武周時期 石灰岩雕大勢至與觀世音菩薩立像一對
each bodhisattva exquisitely carved in an elegantly eased standing posture of tribangha on a waisted lotus pedestal, one holding an elixir bottle in the lowered left hand and the other holding a lotus stem in the right hand, adorned with necklaces and wearing a long draped scarf and a dhoti falling neatly in U-shaped folds above the feet, each face depicted with a benevolenꦐt and peaceful expression with broadly arched brows, downcast, lidded eyes and plump lips, flanked by pendulous earlobes, the hair drawn up to a high chignon, one decorated with an elixir bottle at the front and the other centered by a figure of Amitabha Buddha
67 cm
Coll๊ection of Grenville L. Winthrop (1864-1943), Nꦚew York, acquired prior to 1925.
Yamanaka & Co., Inc., New York.
Parke-Bern✨et Galleries, New ༺York, 27th May 1944, lot 805.
C.T. Loo & Co., New York.
Frank Caro, successor to C.T. Loo, New York.
Collection of James W. (1913-1990) and Marilynn Aಌlsdorf, Chicago, acquired in 1961.
Eskenazi Ltd, London, 1990.
Christie's New York, 16th September 1998, lot𓆉s 283 and 284.
A distinguished European collection.
Christie's 🐓New York,🔯 13th/14th September 2018, lots 1123 and 1124.
Grenville L. Winthrop（1864-1943年）收藏，紐約，1925年前入藏
山中商會，紐約
紐約帕克．博內藝廊，1944年5月27日，編號805
盧芹齋，紐約
盧芹齋繼承人 Frank Caro，紐約
James W.（🌳1913-1990年）及 Marilynn Alsdorf 伉儷收藏，芝加哥，1961年入藏
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦，1990年
紐約佳士得1998年9月16日，編號283至284
歐洲顯赫收藏
紐約佳士得2018年9月13/14日，編號1123及1124
Notre Dame Alumnus, vol. 34, no. 2, March-April 1956, p. 7 (Avalokiteshvara o🏅nly).
Osvald Sirén, Chinese Sculpture from the Fifth to the Fourteenth Century, London, 1925 (reprint Bangkok, 1998), pl. 372.
Giuseppe Eskenazi in collaboration with Hajni Elias, A Dealer's Hand. The Chinese Art World Through the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi, London, 2012 (rev🥀. ꧟Chinese ed. 2015), pl. 123 (Avalokiteshvara only).
《Notre Dame Alumnus》，卷34，第2期，1956年3-4月，頁7（觀世音菩薩）
喜龍仁，《Chinese Sculpture from the ဣFifth to the Fourteenth Century》，倫敦，1925年（再版，曼谷，1998年），圖版372
埃斯卡納齊，薛好佩整理，《中國藝術品經眼錄：埃斯卡納齊的回憶》，倫敦，2012年（中譯版，上海𝄹，2015年），圖版123（觀世音菩薩）
House of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, 1954, ♔no. 74.
O’Shaughnessy Art Gallery, Notre Dame University, Notre Dame, IN, 195🏅6 (Avalokiteshvara only).
4,000 Years of Chinese Art. An Exhibition Organised and Lent by C.T. Loo, Wadsworth At♈hꩵeneum, Hartford, CT, 1958, no. 158 (Avalokiteshvara only).
Chinese Art from the Collection of James W. and Marilynn Alsdorf, The Ar💜ts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1970, nos S 22 and S 23.
Ancient Chinese Sculpture from the Alsdorf Collection and Others, Eskenazi, London, 1990, nos 14 and 15.
《House of Art》，Houston Mꦏuseum of Fine Arts，德克薩斯州休斯敦，1954年，編號🍷74
O'Shaughnes⛦sy Art Gallery，聖母大學，印第安納州諾特丹市，1956年（觀世音菩薩）
《4000 Years of Chinese Art. An Exhibition Organized and Lওen♐t by C.T. Loo》，Wadsworth Atheneum，康乃狄克州哈特福，1958年，編號158（觀世音菩薩）
《Chinese Art from the Collection of James 🧸W. and Marilynn Alsdorf》，芝加哥美術俱樂部，伊利諾州芝加哥，1970年，編號s22及s23
《Ancient Chinese Sculpture from the Alsdorf Collection and Others𒈔》，埃斯卡納齊，倫敦，1990年，編號14及15