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A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF BHURKUMKUTA
CENTRAL TIBET, 15TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no.68460
5 1/2 in. (13.9 cm) high
$200,000 - 300,000

藏中 十五世紀 銅鎏金穢跡金剛像

This gilt bronze depicts Bhurkumkuta, one of the rarest subjects in Tibetan
sculpture. Bhurkumkuta is a healing deity worshipped for eradicating a
practitioner’s disease. Executed with “supreme mastery”, this sculpture is
identified by Weldon as perhaps the most accomplished work of Tibetan art
in the Nyingjei Lam Collection (Weldon & Singer, The Sculptural Heritage of
Tibet, London, 1999, p.116). This gilt bronze is also the finest known sculptural
example of Bhurkumkuta.

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