近年来艺术品市场的南诏大理佛精品

Fine Buddhist Statues of Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms Appearing in Art Markets in Recent Years

1925年大理地震,崇圣寺千寻塔等地的塔藏文物掉落后被哄抢一空。其中,一些珍贵文物很快被倒卖到了华东乃至国外。1944年,美国学者海伦·查平在哈佛大学《亚洲研究季刊》发表了《云南的观音像》,文中提到当时美国大都会博物馆、旧金山艺术馆等机构收藏有六尊来自中国南诏大理国时期的佛像,其中最著名的是1941年4月入藏圣地亚哥艺术馆的大理国王段正兴造阿嵯耶观音像。这批佛像极有可能就是地震后的流散文物。近年来,笔者在艺术品拍卖市场又得见几件珍贵的南诏大理国佛像,均属海外回流文物,故成文以记录之,希望能丰富大家对南诏大理国佛像的认识。

In 1925,the cultural relics kept in Qianxun and other Pagodas in Chongsheng Temple were shaken down and looted away during an earthquake.Some of them were sold to East China and even abroad.In 1944,Helen Burwell Chapin published "Yunnanese Images of Avalokitesvara" in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies,mentioning six Buddhist statues from Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms and collected in museums like Metropolitan Museum of America and San Francisco Art Museum.The most famous piece is Acarya Avalokitesvarastatuebuilt by Duan Zhengxing,the King of Dali Kingdom,and collected by San Diego Museum of Art in April,1941.These statues are very likely to be the lost relics after the earthquake in 1925.In recent years,I have been lucky to see some pieces of valuable Nanzhao and Dali Buddhist statues returning from abroad inart auction markets.Therefore,this paper intends to record the events for a better understanding of Nanzhao and Dali Buddhist statues.