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89 Provenance: the Jeannette Claude Jongen collection of Buddhist Art
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF MAHAKALA SHADBHUJA
Tibeto-Chinese, circa 19th century 來源： Jeannette Claude Jongen夫人珍藏佛教藝術品
The six-armed deity standing on two prostrate elephant-headed
figures over a lotus base, surrounded by the orange pristine In contrast to the various other forms of Mahakala, the Shadbhuja
awareness fire, the main hands holding the wish-fulfilling jewel and Sita (“The White Lord with Six Hands”) form is a wealth deity - the
a skull cup filled with jewels, dressed in a dhoti and adorned with skull cup resting in his primary left hand contains jewels, rather than
various jewellery and streaming ribbons, the face surmounted by a grisly remains. Furthermore, White Mahakala can be distinguished
five-jewelled tiara, the sealed base incised with a double vajra. iconographically by his diadem, made of jewels rather than skulls,
21.3 (8 3/8in) high and the elephant-headed deities on which he stands. Compare with
elaborate Mongolian example of the same period held in a private
£5,000 - 7,000 collection, illustrated in HAR - himalayanart.org/items/32376; and
HK$59,000 - 82,000 smaller example with a similar treatment of the mandorla in the John
CNY48,000 - 68,000 and Berte Ford Collection, illustrated by P.Pal, Desire and Devotion,
Baltimore, 2001, p.309, no.183. A related gilt-bronze figure of White
漢藏約十九世紀 銅鎏金大黑天背光立像 Mahakala, Tibeto-Chinese, 18th century, but without a mandorla, sold
at Christie’s New York, 21 March 2012, lot 802.
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