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LIAO (916-1125 A.D.) 遼 遼王朝是由草原民族「契丹」所建立的政權,統治中國北方長達二百餘年。其間多位帝王推崇佛教,社會奉佛之風盛行,使遼代的佛教造像藝術呈現出一派繁榮的景象。遼代造像風格承自晚唐到宋的中原造像,又融合了草原民族的審美觀,形成了獨特審美的藝術風格,在歷代佛教雕塑的長河裡,開創了嶄新的一頁。今在山西大同華嚴寺、善化寺與河北薊縣獨樂寺都遺留有遼代彩塑。內蒙古呼和浩特遼代萬部華嚴經塔,巴林左旗遼代白塔,北京天寧寺塔的塔身上都有許多精美的磚雕造像,都體現了遼代佛教藝術的優美風格。 本尊阿彌陀佛像為遼代金銅造像中的精品,阿彌陀佛,又名無量光、無量壽。在漢傳佛教中,阿彌陀佛造像雙手多結施無畏印和與願印,或一手持蓮花,代表阿彌陀佛以蓮花接引眾生往生西方極樂凈土。據《觀無量壽經》記載,往生極樂的眾生可分九種品相,阿彌陀佛在接引時會根據九種品相結九種手印。本像所施乃「中品中生印」,即兩手掌心相外並列,拇指和中指相連。拍品通體鎏金,保存完好,阿彌陀佛前額寬闊、法相豐圓飽滿,雙目垂視,耳大嘴小,神態安詳。兩肩寬厚,身軀飽滿,給人端莊偉岸之感;蓮座則為束腰大仰蓮式,蓮瓣肥碩飽滿,舒展自如,花瓣尖端又向外翹起,且花形飽滿,呈怒放狀,這種大仰蓮座在宋遼時期最為常見。 遼代佛造像不可多得,長久以來更是被藏家們所追捧,至今不衰。現存相關的遼代造像可參見台北故宮博物院展藏的阿彌陀佛像(如圖1),型態與結印與本件拍品極為相似;美國納爾遜-阿特金斯藝術博物館中則有另一結上品上生印的阿彌陀佛像(如圖2)。2014年紐約佳士得拍賣中曾出現一件此種級別的銅鎏金佛坐像(如圖3),該像的時代特徵皆也與本件拍品極為類似。

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  • 18cm Height.

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