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尺寸：高214厘米
年代：金代-元代
质地：木雕彩绘
风格：中原
来源：宾夕法尼亚大学博物馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
位于中国厅北壁的一尊金代水月观音木雕坐像，敷以石膏，彩绘，涂金。该像表面有数层石膏，说明木雕在相当长的一段时间内曾多次修补，然后彩绘、涂金。观音像面容安详，仪态万方，其所呈现的观音坐姿被西方人称为“高贵的悠闲”（图5）。像高214厘米。1924年初由宾博购买。

20世纪20年代，梁思成先生在宾大建筑专业学习，对母校馆藏的中国文物如数家珍。他在《中国雕塑史》有关章节中曾多次谈到宾博的中国雕塑。书中所说“彭省大学美术馆”，即宾大博物馆。其中，梁氏就论及这尊观音雕像：

近来木像之运于欧美者甚多，然在美术上殆不得称品。其中有特殊一种，最堪注意。此种为数甚多，皆观音像，一足下垂，一足上踞，一臂下垂，一臂倚踞足膝上，称Maharajalina姿势。其中最大者在费城彭省大学美术馆，其形态最庄严。波士顿美术馆所藏者则较迟。……与费城像比较，则可见其区别矣。(三联书店香港有限公司，179 -180页)

Guanyin, known as Avalokiteshvara in Sanskrit, is the bodhisattva of compassion. The most popular deity in Buddhism, Guanyin listens to the prayers of the distressed. Devotees would commission the bodhisattva's image to help them gain salvation. This diety's position, with one leg pendant and a bent knee against the ledge, is called the royal ease, lalitsana in Sanskrit, a pose ultimately traceable to pre-Buddhist royalty.

来源:
Purchased from C. T. Loo, 1924

著录:
Jayne, Horace H. “The Chinese Collections of The University Museum: A Handbook of the Principal Objects.” The University Museum Bulletin 9, no. 2-3. (1941): 9-50. See: Pg. 58

Siren, Osvald. Chinese sculpture from the fifth to the fourteenth century; over 900 specimens in stone, bronze, lacquer and wood, principally from northern China. London: E. Benn, Ltd., 1925. See: pg. 158, Plate 586

“Chinese Sculpture Recently Acquired.” The Museum Journal XV, no. 4. (1924): 258-287. See: Pg. 268, plate IX

Quick, Jennifer. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. 1st ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2004. See: p. 64, fig. 55

Jayne, Horace F. “Appendix II.” The University Museum Bulletin IX, no. 2-3. (1941): 58-62. See: p. 58