Chakrasamvara Gilt copper with polychrome and turquoise Tibet

Generally in very good condition. Minor wear to the gilding at the extremities. A crack through Samvara's right lower leg but not detached or reset. Some losses to the polychrome decoration of the face with a lifting crack in the paint through the mouth and nose. The Chakrasamvara group cast separately to the base, with the gilt copper consecration plate intact beneath the lotus pedestal.
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For a full evaluation of the Chakrasamvara Tantra see John C. Huntington and Dina Bangdel, The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art, Chicago, 2003. Cf. two gilt copper Chakrasamvara groups in the Jokhang and Potala Collections, Lhasa, dated by von Schroeder to the 15th and 16th centuries, see Ulrich von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, Hong Kong, 2001, p.1061, pls. 270B-E