A TIBETAN COPPER GROUP OF VAJRADHARA AND HIS CONSORT, he is seated in vajrasana on a lotus-base, both hands in vajarahumkaramudra around his consort and holding the separate moulded vajra and ghanta, wearing dhoti, shawl, its ends around both arms and falling on the lotus, many body-ornaments, crown set with turquoise beads, his face with downcast expression, silver inlaid eyes, urna, aquiline nose, elongated earlobes with circular earrings, the hairdress in a high chignon, surmounted by a half-vajra, his female partner seated on his lap, both legs around his upper body, both hands around his neck and holding kapala and in a form of tarjanimudra, wearing leopard-skirt, its paws resting on Vajradhara's legs, many body-ornaments, crown and a blue coloured hairdress, both with traces of cold gilding, sealed, late 15th - early 16th Century
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A TIBETAN COPPER GROUP OF VAJRADHARA AND HIS CONSORT, he is seated in vajrasana on a lotus-base, both hands in vajarahumkaramudra around his consort and holding the separate moulded vajra and ghanta, wearing dhoti, shawl, its ends around both arms and falling on the lotus, many body-ornaments, crown set with turquoise beads, his face with downcast expression, silver inlaid eyes, urna, aquiline nose, elongated earlobes with circular earrings, the hairdress in a high chignon, surmounted by a half-vajra, his female partner seated on his lap, both legs around his upper body, both hands around his neck and holding kapala and in a form of tarjanimudra, wearing leopard-skirt, its paws resting on Vajradhara's legs, many body-ornaments, crown and a blue coloured hairdress, both with traces of cold gilding, sealed, late 15th - early 16th Century
18 cm high (right lower end of scarf with crack)
Literature
Kreijger, H., Godenbeelden uit Tibet, Amsterdam, 1989, p. 76
Exhibited
Goden en goeroes, Museum of Ethnology Rotterdam, 17 June - 28 November 1989
Lot Essay
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