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TIBET, 15TH/16TH CENTURY
Details
A Rare bronze figure of Manjushri-Yamantaka
Tibet, 15th/16th century
Powerfully and expressively modeled standing in pratyalidhasana on a double-lotus base over a plinth with a frieze of addorsed bulls, with four legs, six arms and three heads, wearing a tiger skin dhoti and a flayed skin over his back, multiple bracelets, and a garland of severed heads, his torso centered by an image of a wrathful deity over a prostrated figure and a further diminutive figure on its chest, holding various ritual implements in his radiating arms and with two small figures of Khyung birds perched on his uppermost arms and atop his headdress, the tiaras with turquoise inlay and remains of polychrome lacquer overall, small square consecration at the back and base sealed
11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm.) high
Tibet, 15th/16th century
Powerfully and expressively modeled standing in pratyalidhasana on a double-lotus base over a plinth with a frieze of addorsed bulls, with four legs, six arms and three heads, wearing a tiger skin dhoti and a flayed skin over his back, multiple bracelets, and a garland of severed heads, his torso centered by an image of a wrathful deity over a prostrated figure and a further diminutive figure on its chest, holding various ritual implements in his radiating arms and with two small figures of Khyung birds perched on his uppermost arms and atop his headdress, the tiaras with turquoise inlay and remains of polychrome lacquer overall, small square consecration at the back and base sealed
11 3/8 in. (28.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Philip Goldman Collection, London