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ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM AN EAST ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
A RARE BRONZE FIGURE OF CANDA
遠東私人收藏佛教造像 VAJRAPANI
YUNNAN, NANZHAO KINGDOM, CIRCA 9TH
CENTURY
LOTS 446–451 cast standing in alidhasana over a prostrate figure, the right
arm raised clutching a vajra, skirted with a garment and a
string of skulls around the waist, the upper body adorned
with a naga and long billowing scarf around the shoulders,
the ferocious face with bulging eyes and an opened mouth
revealing bared fangs, the flaming hair surmounted by a crown
of skulls
13.2 cm, 5⅛ in.
HK$ 150,000-200,000
US$ 19,300-25,700

Another similar bronze figure of Canda Vajrapani of the same
size in the collection of the Jokhang, Lhasa, is illustrated in
Ulrich von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, Vol. II,
Tibet and China, Hong Kong, 2001, p. 768, 182A-B, where he
identifies this group of powerfully modelled sculptures as being
made in the Nanzhao Kingdom, current day Yunnan province,
in the 9th century. It shares distinct similarities with the rock-
sculptures of the Shizhongshan area. Compare also another
example illustrated in Li Kunsheng, Nanzhao daliguo diaoke
huihua yishu, Yunnan, 1999, no. 283, pl. 264.

約九世紀 雲南南詔銅金剛手菩薩立像

447
PROPERTY FROM AN EAST ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
446
A COPPER ALLOY PLAQUE OF BUDDHA
LADAKH OR TIBET, 11TH – 12TH CENTURY
seated in vajraparyankasana on a raised pedestal, the right
hand held in bhumisparsamudra and the left in dhyanamudra,
all within a stupa flanked by engraved foliate scrolls below a
pair of birds
12.7 cm, 5 in.

HK$ 50,000-70,000
US$ 6,500-9,000

In this rare early plaque, originating either in the western
region of Ladakh or Tibet, the depiction of the Buddha seated
in vajraparyankasana on a lotus throne is moulded with a
stupa. Intricately incised lines are skilfully utilised to denote the
finer features of the face and robes.
For another rare early plaque of similar form and iconography,
see Helmut Uhlig, On the Path to Enlightenment, The Berti
Aschmann Foundation of Tibetan Art at the Museum Rietberg
Zurich, Zurich, 1995, p. 41, no 3, catalogued as being from
Ladakh. Compare also a closely related example in the
collection of the Jokhang, Lhasa, illustrated in Ulrich von
Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, Vol. II, Tibet and
China, Hong Kong, 2001, p. 1137, pl. 295C.

十一至十二世紀 拉達克或西藏銅合金錘碟佛坐像
447

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