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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 清十八世紀 鎏金銅大威德金剛像
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF YAMANTAKA 來源：
VAJRABHAIRAVA AND VAJRAVETALI
赫拉莫內克（1902-1971年）泛亞洲收藏
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
紐約佳士得1982年12月1日，編號114
cast in the form of the yidam and consort standing in 巴黎蘇富比2010年12月16日，編號272
alidhasana in ecstatic union, all atop trampled figures, birds
and bovine animals supported on a lotus base with a beaded
upper edge
17.8 cm, 7 in.
PROVENANCE
Collection of Nasli Heeramaneck (1902-1971), the Pan-Asian
Collection.
Christie’s New York, 1st December 1982, lot 114.
Sotheby’s Paris, 16th December 2010, lot 272.

HK$ 400,000-600,000
US$ 51,000-76,500

The complex and powerfully modelled sculpture depicts
Yamantaka Vajrabhairava, the wrathful manifestation of
Manjushri, the Bodhisattva of Discriminating Wisdom, together
with his consort Vajravetali in ecstatic union.
Another figure of similar size, iconography and workmanship
is illustrated by Hung Shih Chang and Jessica P.P. Hsu, eds.
Buddhist Art from Rehol: Tibetan Buddhist images and ritual
objects from the Qing dynasty Summer Palace at Chengde,
Taipei, 1999, p. 122, pl. 46. See also a closely related gilt-
bronze figure of Yamantaka and Vajravetali, sold at Christie’s
New York, 15th-16th March 2015, lot 3214, and another sold
more recently in these rooms, 3rd April 2018, lot 3679.

310 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比