明 木雕自在觀音像

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英文品名：A MING WOOD FIGURE OF GUANYIN IN ROYAL EASE 尺寸：L:30cm;W:23cm;H:52cm 整木雕刻，觀音作半跏自在坐，一腿曲起、一足下垂，雙手抱膝，神態嫻靜低垂。頭戴風帽式寶冠，高髻，面相豐頤，鼻額端嚴。衣褶隨體態流轉，垂落自然，肩臂、裙裾殘留礦彩（石綠、硃紅）痕跡。木胎有年代開裂與包漿，刀法圓渾，為明代木雕供奉觀音。「自在觀音」又稱「水月觀音」，源自佛教觀音菩薩三十三應化身之一，相傳唐周昉繪水月觀音像，作倚巖臨水、悠然自若之態。造像多作半跏趺坐，一腿曲起、一手抱膝，目光低垂，表觀音觀照水月、憫念眾生之意。自宋元以降，木、石、瓷質自在觀音廣泛供奉於佛堂、書齋，為婦孺祈安之主要尊像。 A wood figure of Guanyin seated in royal ease, one knee raised and one foot lowered, the hands clasped about the knee and the face cast down in quiet meditation. The deity wears a hooded crown over a piled coiffure and a full, serene face. The robes fall in natural folds, traces of mineral pigments in green and cinnabar remaining on the surface. The wood shows age cracks and a patina, carved with rounded assurance. The Water-moon Guanyin, or Guanyin in royal ease, is one of the thirty-three manifestations of the Bodhisattva, famously depicted from the Tang painter Zhou Fang as leaning by water in an unconstrained pose. The iconography shows one knee raised, the hands clasped around it, the eyes cast down in compassion. From the Song and Yuan onward, wood, stone and porcelain images of this form were widely placed in family chapels and scholars' studios as devotional images for blessing.

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