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PROPERTY FROM AN EAST ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

A RARE INLAID GILT-BRONZE 十五世紀

FOUR-ARMED FIGURE OF AN 西藏丹薩替寺鎏金銅嵌寶四臂天

OFFERING GODDESS 女像

TIBET, DENSATIL, 15TH 喜瑪拉雅藝術資源網編號13438

CENTURY 此類鎏金銅供養天女像，曾於丹薩替寺裝點佛塔；1948
年，攝影師梅爾（Pietry Francesco Mele）隨朱塞佩．圖齊
dancing with the right foot behind the left, three of the four （Giuseppe Tucci）進藏考察，所攝圖片中可見相類造像。
hands holding musical instruments, including a conch shell 圖片載於 Olaf Czaja 及 Adriana Proser，《Golden Visions
trumpet, damaru and kapala, the voluptuous nude torso of Densatil: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery》，紐約，2014
adorned with inlaid beaded necklaces and armbands, the 年，頁38-39。另有類例，見韓書力，《西藏藝術集粹》，台
head gently tilted head and depicted with a serene expression, 北，1995年，圖版106。
flanked by pendulous earlobes adorned with elaborate
earrings and a five-leaf diadem enclosing neatly coiffed hair
with two tresses falling to her shoulders

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13438
24.7 cm, 9¾ in.

Gilt-bronze plaques of this form, decorated with offering
goddesses, adorned the stupa at the Densatil monastery
complex, as seen in the photographs taken by Pietry
Francesco Mele when he accompanied Giuseppe Tucci on his
1948 expedition to Tibet. These are reproduced in Olaf Czaja
and Adriana Proser, Golden Visions of Densatil: A Tibetan
Buddhist Monastery, New York, 2014, pp. 38-39.

For a similar example, see Han Shuli, Xizang yishu jicui [A
Treasury of Tibetan Art], Taipei, 1995, pl. 106.

HK$ 200,000-300,000
US$ 25,600-38,400

160 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比