A gilt bronze frieze

TIBET, 15TH CENTURY

细节

A gilt bronze frieze
Tibet, 15th Century
Crisply cast in high relief with four figures of goddesses dancing on a double-lotus base, each with their legs crossed and heads tilted slightly to the right, the four-armed deities holding a variety of ritual objects in their hands, including skull cup, bell and vajra, wearing short dhotis tied with billowing sashes at the waist, beaded jewelry inset with semi-precious stones, rosette earrings and elaborate foliate tiaras, their faces with benign expressions with large almond-shaped eyes beneath arched brows, all beneath a border of beaded festoons
15 in. (38 cm.) high

拍品专文

The use of gilt bronze frieze elements is most famously associated with the Kagyu monastic complex of Densatil, founded in the twelfth century and destroyed during the Cultural Revolution. The panels embellished large wooden structures of reliquaries.
The present lot is a fine example of a relief panel salvaged from Densatil. For a related example, see U. von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, 1987, cat. no. 113G.