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A COPPER AND SILVER- 十二至十三世紀
INLAID COPPER ALLOY 西藏銅錯銀金剛薩埵坐像
FIGURE OF VAJRASATTVA
TIBET, 12TH – 13TH CENTURY 喜瑪拉雅藝術資源網編號68317
seated in vajraparyankasana on a double-lotus base, the 展覽：
right hand raised in holding an upright vajra, the lowered 阿什莫林博物館，牛津，1996-2005年借展
left hand holding a ghanta at the waist, wearing a dhoti 《The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet: Buddhist Art in the
fastened at the waist with a beaded girdle and adorned with Nyingjei Lam Collection》，阿什莫林博物館，牛津，1999年
elaborate jewellery, the face with a silver urna and benevolent 10-12月
expression, below a silver-inlaid figure of Amitabha Buddha 《Arte Buddhista Tibetana: Dei e Demoni dell’ Himalaya》
resting on the headdress, two addorsed elephants incised at ，Palazzo Bricherasio，都靈，2004年6-9月
the reverse 魯賓藝術博物館，紐約，2005-2017年借展
《Casting the Divine: Sculptures of the Nyingjei Lam
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 68317 Collection》，魯賓藝術博物館，紐約，2012-2013年
17 cm, 6⅝ in.
EXHIBITED
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1996-2005, on loan.
The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet: Buddhist Art in the Nyingjei
Lam Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, October-
December 1999.
Arte Buddhista Tibetana: Dei e Demoni dell’ Himalaya,
Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, June-September 2004.
Rubin Museum of Art, New York, 2005-2017, on loan.
Casting the Divine: Sculptures of the Nyingjei Lam Collection,
Rubin Museum of Art, New York, 2012-2013.
HK$ 200,000-300,000
US$ 25,600-38,400
Sensitively modelled with gentle face and slender torso, the of the tall headdress. Evidence of a lug at the reverse of the
bronze lustrously patinated and heightened with copper inlay bronze, between the addorsed elephants, suggests that this
to the glorious, large crown and silver inlay to the urna, eyes delightful figure may have originally had a larger repoussé
and Amitabha figure, Vajrasattva gazes directly at the viewer mandorla.
with meditative equipoise.
The large and commanding crown of Vajrasattva, the height
The extant crown sash and delicate rosettes above the ears of which is larger than the head, and which wraps around
bear traces of polychromy and cold gold remnants fleck the head completely obscuring the jatamukata within, has
the neck and ears, as this elegant figure would have been precedents in late Licchavi bronze sculpture, see a bronze
painted and given a layer of gilding to the face sometime after figure of Avalokiteshvara in Ulrich von Schroder, Indo-Tibetan
its creation. The dhoti and upper shawl are incised with a Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, pp. 312-313, cat. no. 78E.
scrolling geometric motif which mirrors the scrolling design
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