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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE DUTCH COLLECTOR
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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF BUDDHA VAJRASANA
TIBET, 15TH CENTURY
4¡ in. (11.1 cm.) high

$5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Netherlands, by 1980s, by repute.
Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 245243.

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE FLORIDA COLLECTION
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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRAGHARBA LOKESHVARA
TIBET, 15TH CENTURY
8º in. (20.8 cm.) high

$15,000-20,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired by the late Sr. Francisco Alarcon de Ponce de Leon (1914-1993) in
Caracas, Venezuela, October 1976; thence by descent.

The present sculpture depicts an eleven-headed, eight-armed emanation of
the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, the patron deity of Tibet who embodies the
compassion of all the buddhas. Here, the fgure is executed in the iconographic
form frst described by the Indian Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna during the
second century. The form was later popularized in meditational texts by the
Indian pandits Bhikshuni Shri and Jowo Atisha, and thereafter absorbed into
the essential iconography of Vajrayana Buddhism.
Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 24563.

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