TIBET, DENSATIL, CIRCA 14TH CENTURY

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A Gilt Bronze figure of Vajravarahi
Tibet, Densatil, circa 14th century
Finely cast dancing on a prostrated figure atop a double-lotus base, holding a chopper in her right hand and a skullcup and khatvanga staff in her left, wearing a beaded and festooned apron, multiple necklaces, armbands and bracelets inset with hardstones, a garland of severed heads, the face with expressively delineated brows and third eye, the sow's head emerging from behind her right ear, her billowing sash forming a mandorla, the reverse with lacquer
12¾ in. (32.5 cm.) high

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Bronzes of this type are documented as part of a lotus base for large sculpture in the Densatil monastery, see P.F. Mele, Tibet, 1988, p. 62. For closely related examples, see U. von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, 1981, cat. no. 120F, p. 120 and H. Uhlig, On the Path to Elightenment, 1995, cat. no. 109, p. 164f., from the Berti Aschmann Collection.