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A TIBETAN GILT-BRONZE STAND FOR A THREE DOCUMENTARY BRONZE
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18th century 13th to 17th century A BRONZE RITUAL DAGGER, PURBHU
The detailed stand cast with a bull copulating Comprising a figure of Guanyin holding a 16th/17th century
with a prostrate woman, the animal decorated sceptre seated on a flaring lotus base rising The ritual dagger’s hilt cast with a three-
with jewelled swags with inset turquoise from a wood stand, dated by inscription headed wrathful deity with flaming hair
beads, all raised on a lotus petal plinth. to Tianshun and of the period; a figure of crowned with a vajra point, the handle
10cm (3 7/8in) wide Buddha seated on a double-lotus base with foliate lappets, the tri-part blade with
with both hands held in his lap, dated by interlaced stylised bird heads surmounted
£1,500 - 2,000 inscription to the third year of Jiajing (AD1524) with three makara heads, perspex stand.
CNY15,000 - 19,000 and of the period; and a figure of Guanyin 32cm (12 5/8in) long (2).
HK$18,000 - 24,000 holding a child on her lap seated on a tall £400 - 800
plinth, cyclically dated xinsi year of Chongzhen CNY3,900 - 7,700
For similar iconography of a buffalo and (AD1641) and of the period. HK$4,700 - 9,400
recumbent figure, compare the Central The tallest: 30.4cm (12in) high (4).
Tibetan painting of Raktayamari illustrated in
P. Pal, Desire and Devotion: Art from India, £1,000 - 2,000
Nepal and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford CNY9,700 - 19,000
Collection, London 2001, p. 238. HK$12,000 - 24,000
A bovine vehicle is often seen in thangka
and gilt-bronzes representing the terrifying
Yamantaka, see Sotheby’s Indian and South
East Asian Art, New York, 19 September
1996, lot 48.
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