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A FINE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRADHARA
18th century
Cast with a benign face under a five-leaf tiara encircling a
high chignon, the deity dressed in dhoti and adorned with
elaborate jewellery hanging over the bare chest, the arms
raised and crossed holding a vajra and a ghanta, seated
cross-legged in dhyanasana on a double-lotus pedestal
15.8cm (6 1/4in) high

£10,000 - 15,000
CNY89,000 - 130,000
十八世紀 銅鎏金持金剛坐像

Provenance: Koller, Zurich, 18 September 2010, lot 126
A distinguished European private collection

來源：2010年9月18日於蘇黎世闊樂拍賣，拍品126號
顯貴歐洲私人收藏

The primordial Buddha Vajradhara is the root-deity of many
Tantric Buddhist teachings, personification of the dharmakaya,
truth body of enlightenment and progenitor of the Vajrayana
system of Buddhism. According to beliefs generated within the
New (Sarma) Schools, Vajradhara is the ‘Secret and Inner’ form
of Shakyamuni Buddha and embodies the combined essence
of all the Buddhas of the Ten Directions and the ‘Three Periods
of Time’. A similar gilt-bronze figure of Vajradhara, 17th century,
in the collection of the Guimet Museum, Paris, is illustrated in
illustrated in Himalayan Art Resources, item no.85940.

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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
士紳藏品
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A COPPER-ALLOY FIGURE OF DORJE DROLO
18th century
The wrathful deity modelling lunging in alidhasana,
trampling demons on a lotus base and wearing
loose robes, a beaded necklace and a garland of
severed heads at the waist, the right hand upraised
holding a vajra, the left with a kila, the face with
three glaring eyes and flaming eyebrows framed
by upward-flowing tresses behind an elaborate
headdress and serpentine earrings.
21cm (8 2/8in) high.

£5,000 - 7,000
CNY45,000 - 63,000

十八世紀 銅忿怒蓮師像

Provenance: a Scottish private collection

來源： 蘇格蘭私人收藏

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