A GILT BRONZE SINO-TIBETAN FIGURE OF PALDEN LAMO
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The wrathful deity wearing a crown of skulls below erect and billowing hair, cast with bulging eyes and fanged teeth, seated on a harnessed donkey, holding a skull cup in one hand, the other arm raised, heavily gilt with extensive traces of pigment remaining
11 in. (28cm.) high
拍場告示
Please note that the estimate should read HK$65,000-75,000 instead of HK$30,000-50,000 as stated in the catalogue.
拍品專文
Palden Lhamo, or Sri Devi in Sanskrit, is the Tibetan Protectress who is normally portrayed riding a horse or a donkey, and is the most important deity of Tibetan Buddhism.