Dehua: Statuette of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva on a Lion
Porcelain
瓷塑坐獅觀音菩薩像 陳其太
中國
觀音束髮，神色端莊安詳。身形苗條，佩瓔珞，腰繫帶。帛帶飄動，衣紋流暢自然。左手持玉如意，右手撫獅。盤屈左腿，右足自然垂下，自在地坐於獅背上。
臥獅採用傳統民間工藝的造型，威武之間更突出裝飾性的效果。獅口微張、怒目圓睜的動勢與觀音神態自若、大慈大悲的形象形成鮮明的對比。獅子原是佛教四大菩薩中文殊菩薩的坐騎，顯現此作的民間化處理。
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 56.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Dehua: Statuette of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva on a Lion." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 56.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Dehua: Statuette of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva on a Lion" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:56.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Dehua: Statuette of Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva on a Lion. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 56).
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