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Lot 465
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF CHAKRASAMVARA
Estimated Value:
3.000 € - 5.000 €
Result:
6.475 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
Mongolia, late 18th cent.H. 16,3 cm
Trampling in alidhasana on a pair of Hindu divinities reclining on separate cast lotus base, his principle arms embracing his consort, the hands holding karttrika and kapala, the other arms radiating around his body with the hands holding the prescribed attributes or gestures, wearing skirt, elephant-skin behind, garlands of severed heads and skulls, bejewelled, his four-faced head displaying each a wrathful expression, his hair combed in a chignon decorated with a vishvavajra, secured with a tiara and his consort holding the karttrika and kapala, resealed.
Important South German private collection collected between 1956 and 2004, coll. no. 33, according to handwritten note on the collection card acquired from Ostasiatuca Kuo in Berlin - Minor traces of age
