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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE 喜馬拉雅西部 約十一世紀 銅合金咕嚕咕列佛母
COLLECTION 坐像
A COPPER-ALLOY FIGURE OF KURUKULLA 來源 :
WESTERN HIMALAYAS, CA. 11TH CENTURY 紐約蘇富比，2013年3月20日，編號219
the three-headed and six-armed tantric Buddhist meditation
goddess seated in paryankasana, on a lotus surrounded by
naga, holding an arrow and bow in her uppermost left and
right hands, a vajra sceptre and lotus flower in the middle,
her principle right hand in abhaya mudra, the gesture of
fearlessness, and the left before her heart in tarjani mudra,
the gesture of warning
H. 22.7 cm, 9 in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s, New York, March 20th, 2013, lot 219.
Statue de Kurukulla en alliage de cuivre, Himalaya de l’ouest,
vers XIe siècle
‡ 25 000-35 000€

The three-headed and six-armed tantric Buddhist meditation 1977, cat. 37. Kurukulla wears a tight-fitting bodice shaped
goddess holds an arrow and bow in her uppermost left and to reveal the navel and the top of the breasts in the fashion
right hands, a vajra sceptre and lotus flower in the middle, common throughout early Kashmir and western Himalayan
her principle right hand in abhaya mudra, the gesture of depictions of female deities from around the ninth century,
fearlessness, and the left before her heart in tarjani mudra, see Siudmak, The Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Kashmir and
the gesture of warning. The goddess is seated in the yogic its Influences, Leiden, Boston, 2013, p. 440. No other example
posture, paryankasana, on a lotus surrounded by naga of this form of Kurukulla is recorded from Himalayan regions,
with hands held in anjali mudra, a gesture of offering and but a rare four-armed seated emanation of the goddess is
reverence. An aureole of flames rises behind the goddess depicted in an eastern Indian Pala period (8th-12th c.) gilt
in a trilobate format typical of northern Indian Himalayan copper figure formerly in the Nyingjei Lam Collection, sold at
styles such as a Prajnaparamita in the British Museum, see Sotheby’s Hong Kong, October 3, 2017, lot 3106.
Auboyer and Béguin, Dieux et démons de l’Himâlaya, Paris,

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