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Property From the Estate of Raymond Cheven

A Gilt Copper Alloy Figure of Vajrabhairava, Tibeto-Chinese, 18th Century

Auction Closed

September 20, 05:33 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

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Property From the Estate of Raymond Cheven

A Gilt Copper Alloy Figure of Vajrabhairava 

Tibeto-Chinese, 18th Century


Height 9½ in. (24.1 cm)


the bull-headed dharmapala in alidhasana on a lotus pedestal, holding a kartrika and kapala, wearing beaded jewelry, a garland of human heads, a naga around his waist, with a chakra suspended on his pronounced belly, a billowing sash framing his body, and a flayed elephant skin across his back, adorned with a skull crown set in flaming hair


Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13772.

Collection of Raymond Cheven (1928-2011).
Pan-Asian Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 17th June 1993, lot 257.