A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF PROBABLY NAIRATMYA

Estimated Value:

2.500 € - 3.500 €

Result:

3.237 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

Tibet, 16th/17th c.
H. 13,4 cm
Dancing on a figure lying backwards on the lotus base, her right hand holding the handle of the sword while her left is showing the tarjanimudra, wearing skirt, mala of severed heads, bejewelled, her face displaying a wrathful expression, her long hairdo combed backwards and secured with a tiara decorated with five skulls, traces of cold-gilding, resealed.
From an old and important German private collection, collected between 1950 and 1987, collection number C 53
Published: U. Toyka-Fuong, Ikonographie und Symbolik des tibetischen Buddhismus, Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 1987, C 53, pp. 132 and 133 - Wear, traces of age, minor repairs

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