Water-Moon Avalokitesvara
Wood with lacquer and gilding
水月觀音菩薩像
中國
觀音高髮髻，寶冠上立一化佛。菩薩臉形豐潤，慈眉善目，口微啟，綻放笑顏。左手撐於身後，右手擱展於右膝上，採自在坐姿於岩座上。體態飽滿，帔帛及裙裳等自然披垂，刻工細膩，極富韻律感。
菩薩表面敷高嶺土，並施多層彩繪。據考究，此像至少歷三次重新妝鑾，金代（1115～1234）原始彩妝應是上身綠色，下裙紅色，珠寶瓔珞和頭冠為金色，頭髮青色，肌體粉紅。明代（1368～1644）將之彩成鎏金銅像色調。其右手和左足為後世拼接修補，岩座也非金代原物，像背後原應有一龕。據材質判斷，此尊觀音應出自山西省，屬寺院供奉之物。此觀音不僅是一尊精緻的佛教雕像，亦極具藝術和科學研究價值，屬金代佛教藝術著名之作。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1340.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Water-Moon Avalokitesvara." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1340.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Water-Moon Avalokitesvara" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1340.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Water-Moon Avalokitesvara. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1340).
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booktitle = {Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z},
pages = 1340,
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