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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SYAMATARA
Tibet, 17th/18th century
The deity seated in lalitasana on a double-lotus base, flanked by a
lotus, the right foot resting on a lotus, the right hand in varada mudra
and the left near the chest, wearing a dhoti and jewellery, the face
serene and hair in a high chignon surrounding the tiara, the base
sealed and incised with a double vajra. 13cm (5 1/8in) high

£3,000 - 4,000 CNY29,000 - 39,000
HK$35,000 - 47,000

西藏十七/十八世紀 銅鎏金多羅菩薩坐像

Provenance: the Jeannette Claude Jongen collection of Buddhist Art

Published and Illustrated: A.Neven, Etudes D’Art Lamaique et de
L’Himalaya, Brussels, 1978, p.120, pl.27 (the catalogue is offered as
part of the lot)

來源： Jeannette Claude Jongen夫人珍藏佛教藝術品

收錄及出版： A.Neven, Etudes D’Art Lamaique et de L’Himalaya,
布魯塞爾, 1978年, 頁120, 圖27 （此拍品將附贈圖錄一冊）

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The finer details of the face, crown and hair are obscured by the later
application of cold-gold and pigments indicating that the figure was
venerated in Tibet. A closely related 16th century figure of Syamatara
in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, bears the same armbands, dense
row of curls beform the crown, and treatment of the lotus blossom at
the left shoulder. Compare the similar casting of the lotus blossom on a
related Tibetan gilt-bronze turquoise-inlaid figure of Tara, 17th century,
from the National Gallery, Prague, illustrated on HAR – himalayanart.
org/items/57661; see also a related smaller gilt bronze figure of Tara,
Tibet, 17th century, HAR-himalayanart.org/items/24034, later sold at
Christie’s New York, 15 September 2015, lot 21.

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A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF VAJRADHARA
Tibet, 15th/16th century
The deity seated in dhyanasana on a double-lotus base with the hands
crossed before his chest holding a vajra and ghanta, wearing a dothi
and jewellery inset with hardstones. 16cm (6 2/8in) high

£3,000 - 4,000 CNY29,000 - 39,000
HK$35,000 - 47,000

西藏十五/十六世紀 赤銅鎏金執金剛神坐像

Provenance: the Jeannette Claude Jongen collection of Buddhist Art

來源： Jeannette Claude Jongen夫人珍藏佛教藝術品

The broad square face and treatment of the crown, secured by pleated
swags falling to the shoulders is typical of work inspired by Newari
craftsmen in the 14th and 15th century in Central Tibet. Compare the
figure of Amitayus in U. von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong

Kong, 1981, no.117D, p.439.

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