菩薩像
- 奉先寺遺跡出土
- 唐時代
- 石灰石
- H-63.2
- 所蔵
- 龍門石窟研究所蔵
石灰石／奉先寺遺跡出土 唐時代／高63.2 cm／龍門石窟研究所蔵
髻を失った頭部と右の肩から胸の右半分のみが残っている。面長22.0センチ、面幅21.0センチ。一見やや面長に見えるが、面長と面幅はわずか１センチしか違わない。伏目がちな目と長めの鼻、引き締まったうねりの強い唇が作り出す表情には大変成熟した印象があり、重々しい威厳に満ちている。細かな束状に整えた地髪部に毛筋を細やかに刻み、正面に花飾りの付いた革帯を締め、その結び目が右肩に懸かっている。肩に懸かる垂髪、華やかな胸飾りは図版47の菩薩像よりは明らかに進んでおり、制作期は８世紀の半ば頃かと推定される。
Catalogue Entry
Limestone/ Excavated from the Fengxiansi Temple Site, Tang dynasty/
H. 63.2 cm/ Longmen Caves Research Institute
Only the head, missing its topknot, and the right shoulder of this figure remain. The face is 22.0 cm tall and 21.0 cm wide. Thus, while at first this face appears to be elongated, in fact, there is only 1 cm of difference between the face's height and width. The eyes are slightly downcast, the nose is long and the mouth is pushed into flower-petal shaped lips. These features all give a sense of an extremely mature figure and the image is filled with a serious dignity. The hair on the head is arranged in narrow bundles, with hair lines defined in detailed incising. A decorative head band with floral decoration on the front is bound horizontally over this detailed hair. The knot of the head band hangs over the right shoulder. Locks of hair hang to the shoulders and the chest decoration is lively. These last two features are more clearly more advanced than those seen on the bodhisattva displayed as cat. No. 47. It is surmised that this sculpture was created around the middle of the 8th century.