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A gilt-copper and silver figure of Vajradhara, Tibet, 18th century | 十八世紀藏傳銀及鎏金銅金剛手菩薩坐像

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A gilt-copper and silver figure of Vajradhara

Tibet, 18th century

the silver figure of Vajrasattva, with turquoise inlaid jewellery and gilt copper scarf, seated in vajraparyankasana on a gilt copper lotus pedestal

Height 52 cm, 20½ in.

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Statue de Vajradhara en cuivre doré et argent, Tibet, XVIIIe siècle

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十八世紀藏傳銀及鎏金銅金剛手菩薩坐像

The large and rare Tibetan silver repoussé statue is a pair to the four-armed silver Avalokiteshvara formerly in the Cranmore Ethnographical Museum, whose collection was formed in the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century by Harry G. Beasley (d. 1939), see Graves, Son and Pilcher, March 3, 1975, pl. 7, lot 72, and Sotheby’s, London, 9th May 1977, lot 166.

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A gilt-copper and silver figure of Vajradhara, Tibet, 18th century | 十八世紀 藏傳銀及鎏金銅金剛手菩薩坐像

A gilt-copper and silver figure of Vajradhara, Tibet, 18th century | 十八世紀藏傳銀及鎏金銅金剛手菩薩坐像