A GILT COPPER ALLOY SHRINE OF CHINTAMANI LOKESVARANEPAL, DATED 1705
Inscribed in Newari around the lower edge of the lotus base, translated: "Made by/for[?] Padmananda raja on the eighth of the bright half of Sravana, Nepal Samvat 825 (1705 CE)."
Himalayan Art Resources item no.16719
22 cm (8 5/8 in.) high注脚Standing with crossed ankles and wearing a finely-delineated tiger skin loosely tied around the waist, Chintamani Lokeshvara extends his right hand to throw a freshly plucked jewel into the kneeling supplicant's bag. Meanwhile, he raises his left hand to touch the wish-fulfilling tree (kalpavriksha), which has been flawlessly stylized into a mandorla around him. Another closely related version of the deity, dated 1684, sold at Christie's, Paris, 7 June 2011, lot 395.

A form of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, the deity's epithet "chintamani" means "wish-fulfilling gem". The visual subject is rarely encountered in either bronze or stone. One of the earliest forms can be found in a Pala bronze in the Bonardi Collection, with various figures and animals within the foliage (see Tucci, Transhimalaya, Geneva, 1973, no.151). Also see an early 18th-century Nepalese painting of the same subject published in Pal, Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure, Chicago, 2003, p.82, no.47.

Provenance
Private French Collection, acquired in Paris, 1970s


銅鎏金倚樹觀音像
尼泊爾，1705年
蓮花座下緣刻紐瓦爾文，譯為：「由/為（？）帕德瑪南達拉加於尼瓦曆825年（即公元1705年）史拉幾那月的第八天製成。」
喜馬拉雅藝術資源網16719號
高22釐米（8 5/8英吋）

80,000-120,000港幣

菩薩交足而立，腰間鬆鬆系著精美虎皮裙，右手將珠寶拋進侏儒的袋子中。菩薩左手觸摸如意樹，明豔的樹冠在菩薩身後形成優美的拱形，宛如華麗的背光。曾有一件十分相似之1684年作倚樹觀音像，售於佳士得，巴黎，2011年6月7日，拍品395。

倚樹觀音為觀世音菩薩形象之一，其梵文名（chintamani）意為如意寶珠。該題材在銅像及石像中均較為罕見，已知最早期的作品可參考一件Bonardi收藏中的帕拉銅像，其繁茂的枝葉上可見造型各異的人物與動物（見圖奇，《Transhimalaya》，日內瓦，1973年，編號151）。另一件十八世紀早期同題材之尼泊爾繪畫著錄於Pal《Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure》，芝加哥，2003年，頁82，編號47。

來源
法國私人珍藏，1970年代購於巴黎