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9/2/2020 Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art | Sotheby's

Indian, Hi ma layan & Southeast Asian Works of Art
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 12:00 PM EDT

Lot 309

THE GODDESS CARCIKĀ AND CONSORT, CHINA , BEIJING, QING DYNASTY (1644-1911), QIANLONG
PE RIOD (1735-1796)
Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 USD

OTHER PROPERTIES
THE GODDESS CARCIKĀ AND CONSORT
CHINA, BEIJING, QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
QIANLONG PERIOD (1735-1796)

35 by 22 ½ in. (89 by 57.2 cm)

the sow-headed goddess in union with her male consort, dark and light blue in color and each with secondary red and white faces,
and each with six arms holding identical ritual implements, padma, khadga, vajra, chakra, kartrika and kapala, standing on a lotus
pedestal with red and orange flames and black smoke rising behind, set in a mountainous landscape with a midnight blue sky,
multi-colored clouds and the sun and moon above, a nagini worshiping at a white stupa below left, a mahasiddha practicing in
charnel grounds with animals and a bird devouring a corpse, a large kapala at center filled with offerings, and a dancing skeleton,
body parts, a slain corpse, and wrathful deities to the lower right

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13747.

Catalogue Note
The dark blue animal-headed goddess lunges in pratyalidha facing the viewer in yum yab (Mother Father), engaged with her light
blue male consort in a rare reversal of the common yab yum (Father Mother) tantric posture. The goddess takes the primary role in
the union with her male consort. A Qianlong (r. 1735-1796) mark and period bronze group of the same iconography as the painting
is displayed in the Fanhua Pavilion in the Forbidden City, and identified in a Chinese inscription as za lie zi fo mu, Skt. Carcikā: the

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