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Lot 118
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Ushnishavijaya Gilt copper, gems and painted details Tibeto-Chinese or Mongolia

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Description

  • Ushnishavijaya
  • Gilt copper, gems and painted details
  • height 15 1/4 in. (38.7 cm.)
Finely modeled with the slender three-faced goddess seated on a double-lotus pedestal, wearing a pleated dhoti with a patterned border, a flowing scarf encircling her shoulders and falling on either side, her eight arms in graceful postures, her primary face with a benign expression, her hair arranged in the characteristic double-domed ushnisha surmounted by a jeweled chintamani. For a closely related example see von Schroeder, 1981, p. 551, no. 157D.

Provenance

Philip Goldman, London

Exhibited

Tantra, Haywood Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain, September 30 - November 14, 1971

Literature

Phillip Rawson, Tantra: The Indian Cult of Ecstacy, Singapore, 1979, no. 396, p. 89