A PARCEL GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF CHAKRASAMVARA AND VAJRAVARAHI

Estimated Value:

2.500 € - 3.500 €

Schätzpreis:

4.500 €

Description:

Nepal, 16th/ 17th c.
H. 12,5 cm
Standing in pratyalidhasana on Bhairava and Kalaratri prostrating on the separate cast lotus base, embracing his partner, the hands holding vajra and ghanta, wearing skirt, scarf draped around his shoulders, mala of severed heads, bejewelled, his face displaying a severe expression with open eyes below raised eyebrows, elongated earlobes with ear ornaments, his hair combed in a chignon decorated with the half-moon emblem, his consort holding kapala and the remains of a karttrika. Unsealed.
From an old Bavarian private collection, mostly acquired at Schoettle Ostasiatica between 1968 and 1992
Wear, traces of age, mandorla lost

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