Lot 3018
3018
A LARGE REPOUSSE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF CHAKRASAMVARA AND VAJRAVARAHI
A LARGE REPOUSSE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF CHAKRASAMVARA AND VAJRAVARAHI
A LARGE REPOUSSE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF CHAKRASAMVARA AND VAJRAVARAHI
A LARGE REPOUSSE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF CHAKRASAMVARA AND VAJRAVARAHI
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A LARGE REPOUSSE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF CHAKRASAMVARA AND VAJRAVARAHI

18TH-19TH CENTURY

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A LARGE REPOUSSE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF CHAKRASAMVARA AND VAJRAVARAHI
18TH-19TH CENTURY
The deities are masterfully cast in yabyum, with Chakrasamvara striding in alidhasana over prostrate figures on a lotus base, his twelve arms holding various ritual implements, wearing a garland of skulls and a tiger skin around his waist, and Vajravarahi with her legs wrapped around him, holding a vajra and ghanta.
21in. (53.5 cm) high
Provenance
A Southern European private collection, acquired in December 2014

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Chakrasamvara is the primary meditation deity of the various Kagyu Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, and together with Guhyasamāja and Yanmāntaka, form the three most important deities of the Gelug School. Compare to a stylistically similar gilt-bronze figure of Kalachakra displayed at the Yonghegong, Beijing, illustrated in Palace of Harmony, Hong Kong, 1994, p127 (fig.1).

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