十七/十八世紀 藏傳銅大威德金剛坐像

debout en pratyalidhasana sur une double base lotiforme écrasant de ses pieds des divinités ennemies et leurs montures, enlaçant la déesse Vajravetali lovée entre ses bras, la tête principale de taureau cerclée et surmontée de huit autres têtes, ses trente-quatre mains brandissant divers attributs dont le couperet et la coupe crânienne dans la paire de mains principales, dans le dos la peau fraîchement écorchée du dieu Ganesh, scellée (5)

The figure heavily cast, the base sealed. The main figure, deer, birds and base are cast in ten separate parts. Around twenty attributes are missing in Vajrabhairava's hands. There are traces of red and blue pigment to the faces and to the hair. There are several rectangular casting flaws/ patches contemporary with the casting of the piece on the flat part of the base. The letters VR are written in white on the base plaque, referring to Rafaël Verbois (1885-1979), a Flemish priest living in China whose collection is now in the Ethnographic Museum in Antwerp.
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