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83 Provenance: the Jeannette Claude Jongen As noted by D.Weldon and J.C.Singer in
A RARE SILVER FIGURE OF NARO collection of Buddhist Art The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet: Buddhist
DAKINI Art in the Nyingjei Lam Collection, London,
Tibeto-Chinese, 18th century Published and Illustrated: A.Neven, Etudes 1999, p.124, illustrating a related silver figure
The deity striding in alidhasana on a gilt D’Art Lamaique et de L’Himalaya, Brussels, of Mahapratisara, 17th century - silver, a
bronze base cast with two prostrate human 1978, p.110, pl.8 (the catalogue is offered as precious metal - was used only rarely and
figures and sealed with a double vajra, part of the lot). apparently for special commissions in Tibet.
holding a curved knife in her outstretched See also a related but earlier silver figure of
right hand and a skull cup in the left, clad in 來源： Jeannette Claude Jongen夫人珍藏 Yi-dam Cakrasamvara, Tibet, 17th century,
various beaded jewellery and a garland of 佛教藝術品 with a gilt stand and mandorla, illustrated
skulls about her neck, her wrathful face with by H.Uhlig, On the Path to Enlightment: The
three eyes surmounted by a foliate tiara of 收錄及出版： A.Neven, Etudes D’Art Berti Aschmann Foundation of Tibetan Art at
skull heads, her hair piled into a high chignon, Lamaique et de L’Himalaya, 布魯塞爾, 1978 the Rietberg Zurich, Zurich, 1995, pl.112.
surrounded by a gilt copper halo of flames. 年, 頁110, 圖8 （此拍品將附贈圖錄一冊）
20cm (7 7/8in) overall height (3). A related rare silver figure of Usnisavijaya on
a gilt-copper pedestal, 17th century, sold in
£10,000 - 12,000 these rooms on 6 November 2014, lot 366.
HK$120,000 - 140,000
CNY97,000 - 120,000
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