拍品 1029
  • 1029

A BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRAPANI WESTERN TIBET, 12TH CENTURY |

估價
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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描述

  • BRONZE
  • Height: 5  1/8  in. (13 cm)
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13468.

來源

Acquired privately, 1988. 

Condition

Good overall condition. With wear and accretion throughout. Minor bending to jatamukata. Bell separately cast. Minor bending to lotus throne and minor casting at the backs of the knees. Lug between shoulders at back indicate possible missing aureole.
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拍品資料及來源

The current work was likely part of a triad, common during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in Western Tibet. Triads depicting Vajrapani often included the bodhisattvas Manjushri and Avalokiteshvara, connoting wisdom, compassion and discriminating clarity. This figure has been identified as the bodhisattva Vajrapani, due to the vajra or sceptre in the right hand. However due to the ghanta or bell in the left hand, this could also be a form of the bodhisattva Vajrasattva.