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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A MAGNIFICENT AND 十五世紀
LARGE GILT-BRONZE 西藏鎏金銅大威德金剛像
GROUP OF YAMANTAKA
VAJRABHAIRAVA AND 喜瑪拉雅藝術資源網編號13442
VAJRAVETALI
TIBET, 15TH CENTURY 來源：
2002年1月30日入藏於日內瓦

standing in alidhasana atop a double-lotus throne, the male
deity with the primary face of a buffalo and seven auxiliary
human faces surmounted by the head of the bodhisattva
Manjushri, the primary and auxiliary faces with flaming hair,
fierce grimaces and third eyes, with thirty-four arms grasping
ritual weapons and implements, wearing a garland of skulls
and the six bone ornaments, in ecstatic union with the
consort Vajravetali wearing the five-pointed crown, the right
leg extended and the left wrapped around the waist of her
partner, holding a kapala filled with amrita in the left hand and
a kartrika in the right hand, both figures trampling underfoot a
host of supine corpses, birds and animals

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13442
30 cm, 12 in.

PROVENANCE
Acquired in Geneva, 30th January 2002.

HK$ 25,000,000-30,000,000
US$ 3,200,000-3,840,000

fig. 1
Vajrabhairava
Tibet, circa 15th century
Potala Blama Lhakhang inv. no. 807
Photograph by Ulrich von Schroeder, 1996

圖一
約十五世紀 西藏銅大威德金剛像
拉薩布達拉宮之紅宮，藏品編號807
烏爾裡希．馮．施羅德攝，1996年

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