A gilt bronze figure of Buddha Shakyamuni. Ming dynasty
A gilt bronze figure of Buddha Shakyamuni, seated in meditation (padmasana), the right hand in bhumisparsha mudra, the left hand is held in mudra above the feet. The head and ushnisha are covered by spiky locks of hair, on the chest a swastika, at the soles of the feet the Buddhist wheel of the law and at the garment borders flowers and scrolls in engraving. Ming dynasty. Carved wooden base in shape of a double lotus.
Height 38 cm
Abb. 1
The figure of the Buddha on a bookcase in the sitting room of the house of Alexander Koch in Darmstadt, Annastraße 25.
From:
Alexander Koch, Das Haus eines Kunstfreundes, Haus Alexander Koch Darmstadt, Darmstadt 1926, S.
Das Haus eines Kunstfreundes von dem Erbauer: Architekt Fritz August Breuhaus, in: Innendekoration, vol. 37, no 1 (1927), p. 30
Abb. 2
Photo of the figure of the Buddha in the auction catalogue Dr. Fritz Nagel, Mannheim, 21.11.1935, lot 41
Abb. 3
Auction catalogue Dr. Fritz Nagel, Kunstauktion Hofrat Dr. Ing. E.H. Alexander Koch Darmstadt, Mannheim, 21.11.1935
Abb. 4
The bronze figure of the Buddha in the house of Emilfranz Maurer, Wehrstr. 2, Essen-Rellinghausen. Before 1965
明 銅鎏金釋迦牟尼佛坐像
來源：德國達姆施塔特Alexander Koch 博士 (1860-1939)，1935年11月21日在曼海姆Dr. Fritz Nagel拍賣行拍出，編號41
德國斯圖加特迪根漯河的Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidtmann收藏(1885-1960), 由德國埃森的Emil Franz Maurer(1920-2000)於1963年繼承
Provenance
Collection Hofrat Dr Alexander Koch (1860-1939), Darmstadt, publisher since 1890 of the magazine „Innendekoration“ and since 1897/98 of the magazine „Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration“, one of the most important German-language publications in this field; sold at Dr. Fritz Nagel, Mannheim, 21.11.1935, lot 41
Collection Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidtmann (1885-1960), Stuttgart-Degerloch, bequeathed in 1963 to Emilfranz Maurer (1920-2000), Essen