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Lot 64
A RARE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF SITA JAMBHALA
Estimated Value:
8.000 € - 12.000 €
Schätzpreis:
6.000 €
Description:
Tibeto-Chinese, 18th c.H. 16,5 cm
Seated astride the dragon trotting with his four legs over the separate cast lotus base, his head slightly turned, open mouth, pricked ears, pair of horns and a curling tail, both hands originally holding attributes, wearing skirt, scarf floating around his shoulders, bejewelled, his face displaying a wrathful expression with bulging eyes below raised eyebrows, open mouth showing a double row of teeth, painted facial details, elongated earlobes with pierced ornaments, his red coloured hairdo combed in a chignon and secured with a tiara decorated with five skulls, resealed.
From an old and important German private collection, collected between 1950 and 1987, collection number C 96
Published: U. Toyka-Fuong, Ikonographie und Symbolik des tibetischen Buddhismus, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1987, C 96, pp. 234 and 235 - Minor wear, traces of age
