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A gilt-copper alloy figure of Vajravahari, Densatil monastery, Tibet, 15th century | 十五世紀 藏傳丹薩替寺鎏金銅合金金剛亥母像

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June 15, 03:38 PM GMT

Estimate

30,000 - 40,000 EUR

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Property from a European Private Collection

A gilt-copper alloy figure of Vajravahari

Densatil monastery, Tibet, 15th century


the goddess holding a karttrka aloft in her right hand and a kapala in her left, wearing bone jewellery, a long necklace of skulls and a billowing scarf, with a sow’s head appearing from behind her skull crown, dancing with right foot raised and trampling a supine figure on an elaborate lotus pedestal


Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13868.


Height 29.6 cm, 11⅝ in.

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Collection particulière européenne 

Statuette de Vajravahari en alliage de cuivre doré, monastère de Densatil, Tibet, XVe siècle

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歐洲私人收藏

十五世紀 藏傳丹薩替寺鎏金銅合金金剛亥母像


HAR編號13868

Galerie Deydier, Paris, 6th December 1994.

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戴克成藝廊,巴黎,1994年12月6日

The tang beneath the lotus pedestal was designed to secure the statue in its designated position on one of the tashi gomang stupas at Densatil monastery where multiple images of the goddess were placed around the upper tiers, as seen in photographs of the monastery taken in 1948, see Olaf Czaja and Adriana Proser, eds., Golden Visions of Densatil: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Asia Society, 2014, figs. 15, 35.