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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRABHAIRAVA AND VAJRA VETALI A LARGE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A LUOHAN
19TH CENTURY MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)

The buffalo-headed deity is depicted striding in alidhasana on animals The arhat is seated in dhyanasana, and dressed in heavy, fowing robes
and prostrate fgures over a lotus base, the central hands holding secured at the shoulder with a lotiform garment clasp. The face is held
a curved knife and skull cup and the others outstretched, and the in a meditative expression, with furrowed brows below a prominent
central face fanked and surmounted by additional faces and backed bulge at the front of the head.
by the faming hair. Vajra Vetali stands with one leg wrapped around 26æ in. (67.9 cm.) high
her consort, holding a curved knife and skull cup, and looking into
Vajrabhairava’s face. $30,000-50,000
10æ in. (27.3 cm.) high
With the prominent bulge on the front of the head, the present fgure
$8,000-12,000 possibly depicts the Buddha’s disciple, Kashyapa, who is usually portrayed
as an elderly monk, and is paired with the younger disciple Ananda. Images
PROVENANCE: of Kashyapa and Ananda can be found fanking images of Buddha, or
sometimes Guanyin. Alternatively, the present fgure could have been part
Private collection, Baltimore, acquired in the 1950s. of a larger group of 16, 18, or even 100 luohan, a common iconographic
arrangement in Buddhist temples.
A very similar fgure of Vajrabhairava and Vajra Vetali dated to the 19th
century is in the Honolulu Museum of Art. 明 銅漆金羅漢坐像

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