拍賣筆記 vol.363 蘇富比倫敦2020：91萬港元售出，北魏太和八年（484年） 銅釋迦多寶二佛並坐像 - Sotheby’s London, A Bronze Votive Figure Of Shakyamuni Buddha And Prabhutaratna Buddha, Northern Wei Dynasty, Sold for 85,680 GBP

此尊北魏太和八年二佛並坐像，不僅是一件精美的宗教藝術品，更是佛教造像史上的重要實物。二佛並坐的題材源自《妙法蓮華經》，在北魏時期雖有流行，但能夠帶有明確「太和」早期紀年銘文、且保存如此完整的金銅造像，在傳世品中實屬寥若晨星。

尤為引人注目的是，底座上裝飾的四個渦旋紋（Whorl motifs）。這種裝飾在同類型的佛座中極為罕見，展現了獨特的符號化表現。這種渦旋紋樣可上溯至古代文明中對神獸（如神牛）頂部旋毛的描繪，象徵著旋轉不息的生命力與神聖性。在佛教教義中，佛陀的「萬字（Svastika）」與「右旋髮螺」亦呈現相同的順時針旋轉規律，象徵著佛法如法輪常轉，普利眾生。此設計巧妙地將遠古圖騰與佛教頂禮符號融合，為研究早期佛教藝術的本土化演變提供了極具價值的線索。

銅釋迦多寶二佛並坐像

北魏太和八年（484年）

於上世紀80年代得自香港Joseph Chan

私人收藏

A BRONZE VOTIVE FIGURE OF SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA AND PRABHUTARATNA BUDDHA, NORTHERN WEI DYNASTY, DATED 8TH YEAR OF THE TAIHE PERIOD, CORRESPONDING TO 484 AD.

Auction Closed

2020 November 5, 03:52 AM HKT

Estimate

30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Lot Sold

85,680 GBP

cast with two Buddhas side by side seated in dhyanasana on a tapering four-legged plinth, each deity framed by an incised flame-shaped mandorla picked out with striated flaming motifs, the reverse of the mandorla decorated with a seated figure of Buddha within a foliate scroll-shaped border, the sides and reverse of the plinth incised with a dedicatory inscription dated to the sixth month of the eighth year of the Taihe period of the Northern Wei (484 AD)

Height 15 cm, 5⅞ in.

Provenance

Acquired from Joseph Chan, Hong Kong, in the late 1980s.

Private Collection.