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Lot Essay
Begtse Chen is one of the eight Dharmapala, associated with the Nyingma and Geluk orders. He is named for the great copper coat of mail he wears, which is prominently featured in this dynamic sculpture.
Compare to an almost identical example formerly in the Prince Ukhtomsky Collection, and now in the Hermitage Museum Collection, illustrated in Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet, New York, 2000, p.307, no. 120. Compare also with a Qianlong-marked gilt-bronze figure of Begtse Chen in the Beijing Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Classics of the Forbidden City: Tibetan Buddhist Sculpture, Beijing, 2009, no.171, and an 18th-century gilt-bronze figure of Hayagriva with a similar style, accompanied by an yellow label that can be translated as “…Collected in the 26th day of Eighth Month of the Fifty-eighth Year of Qianlong reign…”, illustrated in the same volume, no. 177. (fig. 1)
Compare to an almost identical example formerly in the Prince Ukhtomsky Collection, and now in the Hermitage Museum Collection, illustrated in Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet, New York, 2000, p.307, no. 120. Compare also with a Qianlong-marked gilt-bronze figure of Begtse Chen in the Beijing Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Classics of the Forbidden City: Tibetan Buddhist Sculpture, Beijing, 2009, no.171, and an 18th-century gilt-bronze figure of Hayagriva with a similar style, accompanied by an yellow label that can be translated as “…Collected in the 26th day of Eighth Month of the Fifty-eighth Year of Qianlong reign…”, illustrated in the same volume, no. 177. (fig. 1)