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Property from a Collection of Francisco Capelo
A unusual gilt bronze figure of Visvarupasamvara
NEPAL, 17TH CENTURY
Details
A unusual gilt bronze figure of Visvarupasamvara
Nepal, 17th century
The eight-legged deity powerfully cast crouching with his multiple hands radiating around him, holding diminutive figures of deities and ritual implements and wearing a tiger-skin dhoti, his multiple heads arranged in tiers with wrathful and benign expression incorporating various zoomorphic forms, all bracketed by an arched garland of snakes and topped by a skull
15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm.) high
Nepal, 17th century
The eight-legged deity powerfully cast crouching with his multiple hands radiating around him, holding diminutive figures of deities and ritual implements and wearing a tiger-skin dhoti, his multiple heads arranged in tiers with wrathful and benign expression incorporating various zoomorphic forms, all bracketed by an arched garland of snakes and topped by a skull
15 1/8 in. (38.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Philip Goldman Collection, London
Literature
U. von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, 1981, fig. 105F, p. 387.