Lot 71
  • 71

A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF PALDEN LHAMO QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • gilt bronze
seated on a donkey draped with a flayed human skin saddle-cloth, wearing a tiger-skin loincloth and a flayed human skin tied as a shawl around the naked shoulders, adorned with beaded jewels and a garland of severed heads at the chest, a billowing celestial scarf wrapped around the shoulders, a snake entwined around a tally stick at the waist, the right arm raised and the left holding a skull cap to the chest, the ferocious face with exaggerated features and pierced with a third eye between the eyebrows, the flaming hair surmounted by a five-skull crown, all supported on an oval base of turbulent waves and bones surrounded by craggy rockwork

Provenance

Collection of Ernest Hamilton Sharp (1861-1922), OBE, and appointed King's Counsel for the colony of Hong Kong in July 1902.  

Condition

The figure is in very good condition with the exception of very minor scratches to the patina. The base is sealed.
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