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A GILT BRONZE FINIAL OF GARUDA A GILT BRONZE FIGURE A GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF
NEPAL, 15TH CENTURY OF AVALOKITESHVARA CHAKRASAMVARA AND VAJRAYOGINI
TIBET, 14TH CENTURY TIBET, 17TH CENTURY
Powerfully modeled with his arms and
wings outstretched, his talons grasping the The eleven-headed deity standing in The couple fnely cast standing in embrace,
intertwined snake bodies of two attendant samapada on a lotus with his principal hands she standing on one leg, the other wrapped
fgures, the group backed by an openwork folded in anjalimudra, six arms holding around his waist, her two arms holding
mandorla, richly gilt overall implements at his sides and the remaining a skullcup and curved knife and wearing
7¡ in. (18.7 cm.) high radiating around him, wearing long a bone and skull apron, her head tilted
fowing robes back with hair fowing down her back
$12,000-18,000 5æ in. (14.6 cm.) high surmounted by a jeweled tiara, he with four
faces and twelve radiating arms with various
PROVENANCE: $18,000-25,000 implements, the principle two holding a
vajra and ghanta and crossed around her back,
Private collection, New Jersey, acquired PROVENANCE: wearing a beaded sash and garlands of skulls
from Christies New York, 21 March 2007, and severed heads with an elephant-skin
lot 340 Christian Humann (d.1981), New York, stretched over his back, their faces delicately
before 1976, named the Pan-Asian touching at the nose, both with jeweled
PUBLISHED: Collection by 1977 and skull tiaras, richly gilt overall with traces
Christie’s New York, The Pan Asian of polychromy
Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org), Collection, 1 December 1982, lot 2 7Ω in. (19 cm.) high
item no. 24001 Private Collection, New York, acquired
from Christie’s New York, 21 March 2008, $30,000-50,000
22 lot 1974
PROVENANCE:
PUBLISHED:
Private collection, New York, acquired
Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org), from Koller Auktionen, Zurich, 30 October
item no. 24002 2012, lot 112

PUBLISHED:

Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org),
item no. 24003