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Lot 41
A LARGE AND MASSIVE GILT-BRONZE GROUP OF BHAIRAVA
Estimated Value:
8.000 € - 12.000 €
Schätzpreis:
20.000 €
Description:
Nepal, ca. 17th c.H. 54 cm
assive and large bronze sculpture of a wrathful deity from the Hindu pantheon of Nepal. The gilded bronze of the deity with a third eye on the forehead with four arms is standing on a lotus base together with two devotees. In front of him on the lotus is standing his Dakini which has a five-fold crown and holds a kapâla in her right hand. This tantric deity is perhaps a certain wrathful aspect of Vishnu as generally known by the name Bhairava. He has wild hair rising up behind a five-fold crown which is decorated with snakes and skulls. The attributes of Bhairava are the sword. The kapala, a round shield and an armor made from chaines
and decorated with snakes and skulls. The original setting with iconographical colours is preserved mainly.
Important German private collection, collected in the 1970s and 80s, mainly acquired at Schoettle Ostasiatica, Stuttgart
Published: Tibetica 37, Schoettle Ostasiatica Stuttgart, April 1979, no. 2154
Minor traces of age, minor wear
