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ANOTHER PROPERTY PROPERTY OF THE BASS MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS
FUND
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A CAST AND REPOUSSÉ GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF
VAJRABHAIRAVA AND VAJRA VETALI A LARGE REPOUSSÉ PARCEL GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A
19TH CENTURY LUOHAN
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The deity strides in alidhasana on prone human and animal fgures
over a lotus base, holding a skull cup and curved knife in the principle The arhat stands on a gilded lotus base with his right hand raised in
hands and various implements in the radiating others. The central face vitarkamudra and the left held with palm up. He wears heavy gilded
is in the form of a ferocious buffalo, and is fanked and surmounted robes draped over the left shoulder, the face is fanked by prominent
by human faces. His consort, Vajra Vetali, has one leg wrapped ears, and the hair is shortly shorn.
around the deity, and holds a skull cup and curved knife. Both are
backed by a faming aureole. $40,000-60,000

10º in. (26 cm.) high PROVENANCE

$5,000-8,000 Cesa Atrium, Zurich, 29 August 1969.

清十九世紀 銅鎏金威羅瓦金剛像 清十八/十九世紀 銅鎏金錘鍱羅漢立像