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AN EXTREMELY RARE SILVER ALLOY 明永樂 銀合金時輪金剛像
FIGURE OF KALACHAKRA AND
VISHVAMATA
MING DYNASTY, YONGLE PERIOD

superbly and meticulously cast in the form of Kalachakra
standing in dual alidhasana and in ecstatic union with his prajña
Vishvamata, all atop the trampled figures of the Brahmanical
gods Kama and Maheshvara, each portrayed with a kneeling
female attendant, all atop a gilt-bronze lotus base with beaded
edges, Kalachakra rendered with four heads and twenty-four
hands depicted holding ritual weapons and implements,
including a prayer-bell and a double-vajra, eighteen of the
arms outstretched and two of them wrapped around the eight-
armed Vishvamata, similarly depicted with slender fingers
and holding ritual weapons and implements, including a vajra
handle and a skull-cup, the silver alloy surface, the base sealed
and incised with a double-vajra
18 cm, 7 in.

HK$ 9,000,000-12,000,000
US$ 1,150,000-1,530,000

162 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比