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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF MRS. ANGELA PROVENANCE PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
JUCKER-GRUNAUER
Acquired between 1959-2005. A DARK GREY STONE DEPICTING
A COPPER ALLOY PLAQUE WITH Compare to a similar sculpture in the CHAKRASAMVARA
SILVER INLAY DEPICTING Metropolitan Museum of Art, see Pratapaditya Eastern India, 11th/12th Century
VAJRADHARMA LOKESHVARA Pal, Bronzes of Kashmir, Graz, 1975, p. 206,
Kashmir or Swat Valley, 8th/9th Century cat. 79. the finely carved twelve-armed Heruka clasping
his consort Vajravarahi with his principal arms
the bodhisattva seated in yogic posture on a crossed at the wrist behind her holding the
dais supported with elephants with trunks facing $ 8,000-12,000 vajra and ghanta in prajnalinganabhinaya,
forward, adorned with crown and jewels, the left with prescribed ritual implements held in the
eye with silver inlay, the right now missing, and remaining hands of the outstretched arms, a
holding a vajra cradled in his principal right hand flayed elephant skin draped behind, Samvara
and a ghanta at waist level in his left, his second stepping to his left in alidha, and trampling
left arm bearing a bow held high in the air while Bhairava and Kalaratri lying prostrate on a lotus
the second right arm suspends the end of an pedestal supported by a stepped platform, the
arrow downward, surrounded by an aureole of group surrounded by a flaming halo
four offering devis that encompass a decorated Height 4½ in. (11.4 cm.)
halo
PROVENANCE
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13618.
Height 3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) Sotheby’s New York, March 19, 2008, lot 270.
This exquisite miniature sculpture is one of a
number that have survived from the workshops
of Pala India, mostly now preserved in Tibetan
monastery collections, see Ulrich von Schroeder,
Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, Hong Kong, 2001,
p. 385, pl. 123C-D.

$ 50,000-70,000

907 (actual size)

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