A BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRADHARA

Estimated Value:

2.500 € - 3.500 €

Result:

5.180 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

Tibet, 14th/ 15th c.
H. 13,2 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base with both hands in the vajrahumkaramudra while holding the vajra and ghanta, wearing dhoti, bejewelled, his cold-gilded face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows running into the nose-bridge, raised urna at his forehead, painted facial details, his blue coloured hairdo combed in a chignon topped with a ratna and secured with a tiara decorated with a pair of floating ribbons, sealed.
From an old and important German private collection, collected between 1950 and 1987, collection number C 29
Published: U. Toyka-Fuong, Ikonographie und Symbolik des tibetischen Buddhismus, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1987, C 29, pp. 72 and 73 - Minor wear, traces of age

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