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A GILT METAL ALLOY FIGURE OF TSONGKAPA
A GILT BRONZE SEATED FIGURE OF SHRI DEVI 18th/19th century
17th/18th century As identified by the sword supported by the lotus floating by his right
The protector deity depicted attired in a diadem of skulls holding shoulder and the book by his left, the figure attired in the tall hat and
her right hand aloft to suspend a now-lost implement and holding a robes of a lama, seated dhyanasana upon a double lotus plinth.
skull bowl in her left, seated ‘side-saddle’ upon a flayed human skin 8in (20.3) high
draped across a mule striding upon an ovoid plinth cast and tinted to
depict a sea of human blood and viscera. US$1,500 - 2,000
6 3/4in (17.2cm) high
US$1,200 - 2,000
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A SMALL CAST BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRAPANI
18th century
Of standard wrathful appearance and portly girth, attired in animal
skins and snakes, holding a vajra above him in his right hand and
suspending a thinly cast implement from his chest-level left hand,
standing in the pratyalidha posture upon two writhing snakes cast to
the single-layer lotus petal plinth.
2 3/4in (7cm) high
US$1,500 - 2,000
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