A WEST TIBETAN COPPER FIGURE Of VAJRASATTVA, seated in vajrasana, his right hand in front of his breast, his left resting on his left thigh, both formerly holding vajra and ghanta, wearing diaphanous dhoti, the borders engraved with a chevron design, anklets, bracelets, armlets, various necklaces, remnants of a three-leaf crown, flanked to each side by a flower, one set with a red bead, his face with downcast expression, aquiline nose, smiling lips, urna, pierced elongated earlobes, partly blue coloured hairdress in curles above the forehead, two strings resting on his shoulders and terminating into a high chignon, traces of cold gilding, unsealed, 13th Century
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A WEST TIBETAN COPPER FIGURE Of VAJRASATTVA, seated in vajrasana, his right hand in front of his breast, his left resting on his left thigh, both formerly holding vajra and ghanta, wearing diaphanous dhoti, the borders engraved with a chevron design, anklets, bracelets, armlets, various necklaces, remnants of a three-leaf crown, flanked to each side by a flower, one set with a red bead, his face with downcast expression, aquiline nose, smiling lips, urna, pierced elongated earlobes, partly blue coloured hairdress in curles above the forehead, two strings resting on his shoulders and terminating into a high chignon, traces of cold gilding, unsealed, 13th Century
36 cm high
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, Indian, Tibetan, Nepalese, Thai, Khmer and Javanese Art, 20/21 September 1985, lot 87
Literature
Kreijger, H., Godenbeelden uit Tibet, Amsterdam, 1989, p. 73
Exhibited
Goden en goeroes, Museum of Ethnology Rotterdam, 17 June - 28 November 1989
Lot Essay
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