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PROPERTY FROM THE YANG FAMILY COLLECTION
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A METAL ALLOY AND BRONZE GHANTA AND A BRONZE VAJRA
TIBET, 15TH CENTURY OR LATER
Ghanta 7Ω in. (19.1 cm.) high
Vajra 5¿ in. (13 cm.) long
Case 8¡ in. (21.3 cm.) high
$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE:
Koller Zürich, 5 December 2017, lot 145.
LITERATURE:
Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 24746.
The vajra (ritual thunderbolt) and ghanta (bell) are important implements in
tantric Buddhism, representing masculine compassion and feminine wisdom,
respectively, and are used in various rituals and meditations in Vajrayana
Buddhism. The present set is typical of a type that was first developed in the
early fifteenth-century during the Yongle period (1402-1424), although this
work most likely dates from the seventeenth century. The handle of the bell
is in the form of a half-vajra, similar in style to the correspoding vajra; on the
interior of the bell, the Tibetan characters Om Ah Hum are cast in raised script.
The set is accompanied by a hand-carved wooden storage box. Compare the
present set to another group with a wooden carrying box in the collection
of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, illustrated by B. Lipton
in Treasures of Tibetan Art: Collections of the Jacques Marchais Museum of
Tibetan Art, New York, 1996, p. 212, cat. no. 112.

西藏 十五世紀或以後 金屬合金犍稚及銅金剛杵各一
來源:
Koller, 蘇黎世, 2017年 12月5日, 拍品編號145
出版:
“喜馬拉雅藝術資源” (Himalayan Art Resources), 編號24746

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