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Lot 565
TWO GILT-BRONZE FIGURINES OF A LOCAL DIVINITY AND YAMA
Estimated Value:
400 € - 600 €
Result:
1.683 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
Tibeto-Chinese, 19th cent.H. 4,2/ 3,6 cm
The largest is seated astride the goose, his hands holding chakra, wearing dhoti, bejewelled and his four-faced head showing serene expressions; and Yama standing in pratyalidhasana on a lotus base, his hands showing the tarjanimudra, ithyphallic, wearing garland of severed heads and his bull head topped with a red coloured flaming hairdo, both resealed.
An important private collection from southern Germany, assembled between 1956 and 2007, collection no. 20012 and 20046 - Minor traces of age, minor wear
