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AN INLAID GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF
PALDEN LHAMO
TIBETO-CHINESE, 18TH CENTURY
the fierce deity seated on a donkey draped with
flayed human skin, wearing a tiger-skin loincloth
and further flayed skin around the bare
shoulders, the ferocious face cold-painted, with
a third eye between the eyebrows, the flaming
hair surmounted by a five-skull turquoise-inlaid
crown, with a garland of severed heads and a
billowing celestial scarf over the shoulders, a
ball of thread and a tally stick hanging from the
donkey’s trappings, raising a sandalwood staff
in the proper right hand and the left holding a
skull cup of blood, all supported on an oval base
of turbulent waves and bones surrounded by
craggy peaked rocks, the base sealed with a
base plate incised with a double vajra
height 7½ in., 19 cm
$ 8,000-12,000

藏漢 十八世紀 銅鎏金嵌綠松石
吉祥天母像

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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF
AMITAYUS
QIANLONG MARK AND
PERIOD, DATED XINSI YEAR,
CORRESPONDING TO 1761

the God of Infinite Life seated in dhyanasana
on a rectangular plinth draped with a cloth
centered by a blossom, the hands joined to hold
a bhumpa, dressed in a sash and dhoti, adorned
in jewelry and an elaborate tiara, the figure
framed by a flaming mandorla, the incised mark
in a horizontal line at the front of the base, Da
Qing Qianlong Xinsi Nian Jingzao
height 8⅓ in., 21.3 cm
$ 5,000-7,000

清乾隆辛巳年（1761年） 銅鎏金
無量壽佛坐像

《大清乾隆辛巳年敬造》款

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