A COPPER FIGURE OF VAJRAVARAHI

Estimated Value:

500 € - 800 €

Result:

7.122 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

Nepal, 16th/ 17th c.
H. 6,6 cm
Standing in pratyalidhasana on a lotus base, the four arms radiating around her body, wearing bone-skirt, mala of severed heads, her face with fierceful expression and a small boar-head to her right side, traces of gilding.
From an old and important German private collection, collected between 1950 and 1987, collection number C52
U.Toyka-Fuong, 'Ikonographie und Symbolik des tibetischen Buddhismus', Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, pp. 130 - 131 - Wear, slightly chipped

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