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TWO VERY RARE GILT-COPPER The deities represent two of the Eight Lords of 其中一尊或為瑪尼缽陀羅或贍巴拉，右手
ALLOY FIGURES FROM A SET OF the Horse, ashvapati, in the retinue of Vaishra- 高舉，手持帶火焰之寶物，左手抱一獴，
EIGHT ASVAPATI, THE EQUESTRIAN vana, the god of wealth and good fortune and 其口吐珍寶，贍巴拉身披華袍、配腰帶、
RETINUE OF VAISHRAVANA protector of Buddhist teachings. Each carries 高靴及寶冠，乘祥雲駿馬，馬亦蓋以華
TIBET, 15TH CENTURY a mongoose, Vaishravana’s principal attribute, 服，下承寶蓮座：另一尊或為散脂大將、
symbolising prosperity and generosity. Vaish-
one equestrian deity, possibly Manibhadra or ravana retinue deities are generally perceived 阿吒薄俱或俱毗羅，右手高舉一器，或為
寶劍或纓矛，現已缺失，左手亦抱一獴，
Jambhala, holding a flaming jewel in his raised as equestrian warrior lords riding through cloud
right hand, and a mongoose in the left spitting filled skies, indicated here by the clouds be- 嘴吐珍寶，贍巴拉身披華袍、腰帶、靴及
gems and auspicious emblems, wearing regal neath the horses’ hooves: for a fifteenth century 寶冠，護胸甲飾獸面紋，肩飾瑞獅紋，乘
belted robes, boots and crown, and seated Tibetan thangka of Vaishravana and retinue set 祥雲駿馬，身披馬衣，下亦承寶蓮座。
astride a caparisoned cloud-borne horse on entirely against a background of sky and clouds, 此兩尊造像乃八駿財神其中二尊，八駿
a lotus pedestal: the pair, possibly depicting see Steven Kossak and Jane Casey Singer,
Samjneya, Atavaka or Kubera, with his right Sacred Visions, New York, 1998, p. 186, cat. no. 財神為財寶天王之侍從。財寶天王造型
hand raised to hold a now missing sword or 53: see also iconographic depictions from the 多手抱獴，象徵財富豐盛及慷慨施予，
lance, a mongoose in the left hand spitting Mongolian kanjur in Lokesh Chandra, Buddhist 其侍從多則為騎馬之將軍造型，乘祥雲
gems and auspicious emblems, wearing robes, Iconography, Delhi, 1991, p. 128-31, pls. 214-23: 馳騁空中，見本品兩尊馬足下均有祥雲
boots and crown and a breastplate bearing and Jeff Watt, www.himalayanart.org, set 3386. 便可窺見一二：較另一例十五世紀西藏
a kirtimukha mask, with lion masks at the Another from this set of finely cast and gilded 財寶天王唐卡，背景為天空及祥雲，見
shoulders, and seated astride a caparisoned equestrian figures, depicting Purnabhadra Steven Kossak及Jane Casey Singer，《Sacred
cloud-borne horse on a lotus pedestal and now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Visions》，紐約，1998年，頁186，編號
Himalayan Art Resources item nos. 13672 and is published in Heather Stoddard (Karmay), 53；再一例，見於蒙古甘珠爾經，載於
13673. Early Sino-Tibetan Art, Warminster, 1975, p. Lokesh Chandra，《Buddhist Iconography》
(2) 96, pl. 68. Stoddard included the bronze in her ，新德里，1991年，頁128-31，圖版214-
the taller 20.4 cm, 8 in. seminal work to illustrate the influence of the
early Ming in later fifteenth century Tibetan 23；以及Jeff Watt，www.himalayanart.org，
PROVENANCE sculpture, ibid, p. 95. Compare the style of the 編號3386。
Acquired from Philip Goldman, Gallery 43, lotus petals on the pedestal, the predominance 另較一例，出自同組鎏金銅八駿財神，鑄
London, 9th April 1968. of turquoise for the inset jewellery, the style of 工精美絕倫，刻劃富那跋陀，現於私人收
engraved textile designs and the bearing of the
£ 150,000-250,000 animal mount in the Rietberg museum’s Tibetan 藏，載於Heather Stoddard (Karmay)，《Early
HK$ 1,540,000-2,570,000 fifteenth century gilt copper Guhyamanjuvajra Sino-Tibetan Art》，沃明斯特，1975年，
US$ 197,000-328,000 riding a snow lion, see Helmut Uhlig, On the Path 頁96，圖版68。此乃Stoddard之重要著
to Enlightenment, Zurich, 1995, p. 170, cat. no. 作，作者以該富那跋陀像展示明朝早期造
西藏 十五世紀 鎏金銅八駿財 113: and compare the lotus pedestal, turquoise 像對十五世紀後期西藏造像之深遠影響，
神一組兩尊 jewellery and sculptural finesse of a Tibetan 前述出處，頁95。比較里特貝格博物館收
fifteenth century gilt copper Vajrabhairava in 藏一尊密集文殊金剛騎雪獅像，蓮座花
the Potala, Lhasa, see Ulrich von Schroeder,
來源 瓣、崁寶均以綠松石為主、刻織錦紋飾等
於1968年4月9日購自Philip Buddhist Bronzes in Tibet, Hong Kong, 2001, 可與本品比較，參考Helmut Uhlig，《On
Vol II, p. 1051, pl. 265C.
Goldman，Gallery 43，倫敦 the Path to Enlightenment》，蘇黎世，1995
年，頁170，編號113：此外，亦可比較拉
薩布達拉宮收藏一尊大威德金剛像，蓮
座、綠松石崁寶、造像精細處可與本品
相較，見Ulrich von Schroeder，《Buddhist
Bronzes in Tibet》，香港，2001年，卷II，
頁1051，圖版265C 。

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