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A bronze square vase, fang hu A Tantric Tibetan or Himalayan Thangka
Ming Dynasty or later 19th century or earlier
The archaic, pear-shaped vessel cast in the Han style, raised on a With three central, circular mandala-levels, illustrating elements for
high foot, the shoulders flanked with taotie mask handles suspending Meditation, containing four wrathful deities; the apex with a blue
loose rings, one face inscribed with a thirty-two character inscription, figure of Samantabhadra, The Primordial Buddha and Bodhisattva of
lamped. Mahayana Buddhism, embracing the white figure of Wisdom. The top
40cm (16in) high left and right each depicting five Dhyani within a circle; framed and
glazed.
£500 - 800 82cm (32in) x 49cm (19in)
CNY4,700 - 7,600
HK$5,900 - 9,500 £500 - 800
CNY4,700 - 7,600
HK$5,900 - 9,500

For a similar Thangka, also illustrating a central, circular mandala and
the aspects of meditation, see Philip Rawson, Sacred Tibet, Thames
and Hudson 1991, p. 92.

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