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尺寸：29.1 x 12.1 x 6.1 cm
年代：14世纪
质地：铜鎏金
风格：尼泊尔
来源：史密森尼国家亚洲艺术博物馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
香象菩萨，以香教化众生，香气喻为佛法，使众生嗅此法香皆发菩提心。此像造型优美、人物形象清纯典雅，通身镶嵌各色宝石。虽经近七百年历史，但其表面依旧光彩夺目。 ​

这尊头戴宝冠的菩萨（觉悟者）被塑造为纤细年轻的形象，是西藏金属造像中充满活力的范例。西藏造像通常将尼泊尔理想化的身型与当地对金色及半宝石镶嵌的重视相结合。此像感性的处理方式，源于经由尼泊尔传播的印度审美传统；其西藏来源的线索主要来自宽阔的面部特征。由于藏人视金色为最尊贵的颜色，他们经常为金属造像镀金。在这一复杂工艺中，将金与汞的混合物涂于像身，然后加热至汞蒸发、金附着于表面的温度。藏人热衷于在造像表面镶嵌宝石，这一点在这尊造像大量使用绿松石、珊瑚和青金石进行装饰上体现得淋漓尽致 ​

Bodhisattva Gandhahastin

Previous custodian or owner
Eduardo Lingero
Sauveniere
Rossi & Rossi, Ltd.

Provenance
Mr. Eduardo Lingero, Belgium [1]
Sauveniere Collection, Brussels [2]
To 1995
Rossi & Rossi, Ltd., London, to 1995
From 1995
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from Rossi & Rossi, Ltd. in 1995

Notes:
[1] This piece comes from the collection of Mr. E. Lingero, who collected works from Japan, China, Tibet, and Nepal.
His collection was built up between World Wars I and II, from dealers in Paris and London where he was well known to the antique trade.
He passed away in the late 1970s. This particular piece was among items he sold in his later years, when he helped form a number of private collections in Belgium and Holland.
This piece went to the Sauveniere collection in Brussels (according to Provenance Remark 1, Vidya Dehejia, March 8, 1995, in the object record). [2] See note 1.

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Sculpture of South Asia and the Himalayas (May 4, 1988 to July 9, 2017)