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A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF VAJRADHARA AND
PRAJNAPARAMITA
Nepal, 19th century
Embracing each other and clad in regalia; supported by a crisply-
cast double lotus plinth reversed by a lobed flaming mandorla and
devanagari inscription.
6 3/4in (17.2cm) high
$2,000 - 3,000
Provenance
Estate of Barbara Adams (1931-2016), Washington DC

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A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF SARAVID VAIROCANA
Tibet, 19th century
The supreme patriarch of the Vairocana Family of Buddhas envisaged
with four heads facing each direction and holding his Buddha family’s
symbol of the chakra in his lap, raised atop a double lotus plinth
reversed by a notch to support a now lost mandorla.
3 7/8in (10cm) high
$1,000 - 1,500
Provenance
Estate of Barbara Adams (1931-2016), Washington DC

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