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A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF A BON TEACHER A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF NAMPAR GYALWA
TIBET, CIRCA 16TH CENTURY MING DYNASTY, CIRCA 15TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61930 Himalayan Art Resources item no.61929
6 in. (15.3 cm) high 5 in. (12.5 cm) high
$7,000 - 9,000 $4,000 - 6,000
西藏 約十六世紀 苯教上師銅像 明 約十五世紀 南巴嘉瓦銅像
Holding a sutra in the left hand and the right raised in the gesture of The bronze’s facial type, crown, jewelry, and scarf ends falling
explication (vitarka mudra), the lama wears a heavily patterned robe across the lotus base are typical of the Xuande period. Compare an
and a distinctive Bon lotus cap of six petals. A lama with the same Avalokiteshvara sold at Christie’s, New York, 20 March 2002, lot 72.
iconography is identified as Shangshung Nyangyu Lagyu in Karmay Also SEE von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981,
and Watt, Bon: The Magic World, 2007, p.71, fig.49. pp.530-1, no.151C.
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