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A GOLD AND SILVER-INLAID PARCEL-GILT 十八至十九世紀 A GILT-COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF 十八至十九世紀
COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF MILAREPA 西藏局部鎏金銅錯金銀密勒日巴坐像 TRISONG DETSEN 西藏鎏金銅赤松德贊坐像
TIBET, 18TH-19TH CENTURY TIBET, 18TH - 19TH CENTURY
12.2 cm 喜瑪拉雅藝術資源網，編號11045
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 11045.
25 cm
HK$ 60,000-80,000 來源：
US$ 7,800-10,300 PROVENANCE 紐約蘇富比1997年9月24日，編號105
Sotheby’s New York, 24th September 1997, lot 105.
出版：
LITERATURE
John Clarke, ‘Ga’u: The Tibetan Amulet Box’, Arts of Asia, John Clarke，〈Ga’u: The Tibetan Amulet Box〉, 《Arts
May-June 2001, cover. of Asia》，2001年5/6月，封面

HK$ 50,000-70,000
US$ 6,500-9,100

Trisong Detsen (r. 755-798) was the second Great
King of Tibet, who established Samye Ling as the first
Buddhist monastery in Tibet, and invited the Indian
guru Padmasambhava to bring Buddhism to the land:
Padmasambhava is revered by Tibetan Buddhists who
regard him as a second Buddha. Another gilt copper alloy
figure of Trisong Detsen, one of a group of the Three Great
Kings of Tibet, illustrated in Martin Brauen, ed., The Dalai
Lamas: A Visual History, Zürich, Chicago, 2005, pp. 28-29,
pl. 14 a-c, was sold in our Paris rooms, 11th December 2020,
lot 40.