A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-BRONZE RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER, a female figure in lalitasana on top of the lid, the edges moulded with lotus petals, originally she is holding a cup in her right hand, a skull placed at her right, a slender vase at her left, below a blanket with engraved lotus motifs hanging down beneath her, the interior with a finely executed erotic scene on a shaped rectangular base of a reclining god dressed in a lion-skin loincloth, wearing dharmapala ornaments, the fringed face crowned by three skulls, the female wearing ornaments and crowned, a kapala, a karttrika and a ghanta lay scattered in front of the couple, 17th/18th Century

A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-BRONZE RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER, a female figure in lalitasana on top of the lid, the edges moulded with lotus petals, originally she is holding a cup in her right hand, a skull placed at her right, a slender vase at her left, below a blanket with engraved lotus motifs hanging down beneath her, the interior with a finely executed erotic scene on a shaped rectangular base of a reclining god dressed in a lion-skin loincloth, wearing dharmapala ornaments, the fringed face crowned by three skulls, the female wearing ornaments and crowned, a kapala, a karttrika and a ghanta lay scattered in front of the couple, 17th/18th Century

细节

A TIBETO CHINESE GILT-BRONZE RECTANGULAR BOX AND COVER, a female figure in lalitasana on top of the lid, the edges moulded with lotus petals, originally she is holding a cup in her right hand, a skull placed at her right, a slender vase at her left, below a blanket with engraved lotus motifs hanging down beneath her, the interior with a finely executed erotic scene on a shaped rectangular base of a reclining god dressed in a lion-skin loincloth, wearing dharmapala ornaments, the fringed face crowned by three skulls, the female wearing ornaments and crowned, a kapala, a karttrika and a ghanta lay scattered in front of the couple, 17th/18th Century
17.5 cm wide

来源

Collection Loew
Hotel Drouot, 'Objets d'Art d'Extreme-Orient', Paris, December 22 and 23, 1958, no. 9

拍品专文

See colour illustration and front cover