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A gilt-bronze figure of Palden Lhamo on a mule
18th/19th century
The fierce three-eyed figure cast with glaring eyes and long red-tinted  Palden Lhamo, meaning ‘Glorious Goddess’ is a Tibetan form of the
locks flowing from a crown of skulls, the right hand raised up and       ancient Indian deity Shridevi. The myth surrounding this goddess tells
the left holding out a human skull containing blood, the naked torso     of how she objected to her husband’s practice of human sacrifice,
wound with ribbons suspending snakes and human heads, the figure         and threatened to kill their own son if he did not cease. Forced to
seated on a saddle of human skin tied by the hands, feet and neck        carry out this threat, she used the flayed skin of her son as a saddle
and riding on a frowning mule flaring its red nostrils and incised with  and fled the kingdom. Her husband fired an arrow at her and hit her
an eye on its right hind quarter, wood stand.                            mule, leaving a wound shaped as an eye; this eye served to augment
15cm (5 7/8in) high (2).                                                 her powers to watch over the realms of the Buddhist faith.
£20,000 - 25,000
HK$250,000 - 310,000	     CNY200,000 - 250,000

十八/十九世紀 銅鎏金吉祥天母像

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