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fig. 1 Oeuvres d’Art de Haute Curiosité du Tibet formant La Première fig. 2 The present figure from the Collection G., sold at Hôtel Drouot,

Partie de la Collection G., Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21-24 November 1904 Paris, 21-24 November 1904, lot 464
圖一 G Collection 第一部分西藏珍奇藝術品》，巴黎德魯奧酒店， 圖二 本拍品於巴黎德魯奧酒店 1904 年 11 月 21-24 日
1904 年 11 月 21-24 日 《G Collection 第一部分西藏珍奇藝術品》拍賣圖錄中之著錄

3234 明初 鎏金銅威羅瓦金剛立像

A MASSIVE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT GILT- 來源
Collection G.，1904 年
BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRABHAIRAVA EKAVIRA 巴黎德魯奧，《Oeuvres d’Art de Haute Curiosité du Tibet
formant La Premiére Partie de la Collection G...》，1904 年 11 月
MING DYNASTY, FIRST HALF OF 15TH CENTURY 21 至 24 日，拍品 464 號（圖一、圖二）
法國私人珍藏，1930 年，後於家族中流傳
The magnificent, meditational deity strides in alidhasana on
animals and prostrate figures over a double-lotus base. In his 展覽
primary hands, he holds a curved knife pressed to a skull cup, 喜瑪拉雅藝術資源網（himalayanart.org），編號 23576
while the others are outstretched and in various gestures. He wears
a skirt of beaded festoons and is adorned with various jewellery,
snakes, streaming ribbons, and a garland of severed heads. The
central buffalo-form head is wrathful in expression, with open
mouth and bared fangs, bulging eyes, and flaming brows below
horns and a foliate tiara, and is flanked and surmounted by
wrathful human faces and the peaceful visage of Manjusri.
38 √ in. (98.8 cm.) high

HK$30,000,000-50,000,000
US$3,900,000-6,500,000

PROVENANCE

Collection G., by 1904
Hôtel Drouot, Oeuvres d’Art de Haute Curiosité du Tibet formant La
Première Partie de la Collection G..., Paris, 21-24 November 1904,
lot 464 (figs. 1 and 2)
Private collection, France, 1930s, and thence by descent

EXHIBITED

Himalayan Art Resources (himalayanart.org), item no. 23576

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