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Lot 56
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VIRUPA
Estimated Value:
3.000 € - 5.000 €
Result:
20.720 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
Tibet, early 18th c.H. 13,7 cm
Seated in rajalilasana on a lotus base, his right hand holding the kapala while the left is raised in the tarjanimudra, wearing dhoti, cape, meditation band around his left knee, channavira, bejewelled, his face displaying a severe expression with open eyes below raised eyebrows, elongated earlobes with ear ornaments, his blue coloured hairdo combed in a chignon and secured with a tiara, sealed.
From an old and important German private collection, collected between 1950 and 1987, collection C 6
Published: U. Toyka-Fuong, Ikonographie und Symbolik des tibetischen Buddhismus, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1987, C 6, pp. 24 and 25 - Minor wear and traces of age
