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DescriptionA gilt-bronze figure of Buddha Korea, United Silla period, circa 8th century朝鮮 統一新羅時代 約八世紀 銅鎏金佛立像
Height 11⅜ in., 29 cmCondition reportFor more information on and additional videos for this lot, please contact Eleanor.Jahrling@sothebys.com.
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準買家應該檢查每件拍品以確認其狀況，蘇富比所作的任何陳述均為主觀看法而非事實陳述。雖然本狀況報告或有針對某拍品之討論，但所有拍賣品均根據印於圖錄內之業務規則以拍賣時狀況出售。Catalogue noteThe Unified Silla period was the pinnacle of production of Buddhist sculpture, with numerous images created for private worship after Buddhism became the official religion in the 6th century. It is rare though to find a gilt-bronze sculpture of the Buddha of this large size. The sculpture is finely cast standing tall, the face in serene contemplation, the stylised robes of Udayana type, depicted as rolling waves cascading down the body, the symmetrical hems terminating with stylised inward-turning hooks. See a closely related but smaller (14cm high) standing sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (accession no. 12.37.136), lacking its base, illustrated in Judith G. Smith and Elizabeth Hammer, The Arts of Korea: A Resource for Educators, New York, 2001, pl. 5. It shares the same mudra, symbolizing the dispelling of fear and the granting of wishes as well as the similar treatment of the contemplative expression and cascading folds on the drapery. 
Another closely related but smaller gilt-bronze figure of Buddha from the United Silla Period was sold at Christie's New York, 14th September 2017, lot 835, from the collection of Goto Shinshudo, and another is offered in this sale, lot 119.