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Lot 70

A PARCEL GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF USHNISHAVIJAYA

Estimated Value:

5.000 € - 8.000 €

Schätzpreis:

8.500 €

Description:

Tibeto-Chinese, 18th c.
H. 17 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus-base with her eight arms radiating around her body, the hand showing various gestures, wearing sari, cape draped around her shoulders with its streamers encircling the arms, bejewelled, her three-faced head displaying each a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, incised vertical eye at the foreheads, elongated earlobes with large ear-ornaments, her blue colure hairdo combed in a chignon topped with a lotus-bud and secured with tiaras, resealed.
German private collection, purchased at Lempertz, 30.11.2002, lot 85
A Central Tibetan prototype, a bronze figure of Ushnishavijava from the 17th/early 18th century, is illustrated by Wang Jiapeng, Buddhist Art from Rehol. Tibetan Buddhist Images and Ritual Objects from the Qing Dynasty Summer Palace at Chengde, Taipei, 1999. p.92. pl. 26. The current figure closely adheres to the Tibetan example
Minor wear, mainly within the cold gilding, attributes lost