TIBET, CIRCA XVEME SIECLE

This masterwork is made of silver while its jewellery is heightened with gold enhancing its rarity and sheer beauty. Despite the loss of the original pedestal the complexity of the composition of both figures is still remarkable lively and well-balanced. For instance the multiple arms are so skilfully arranged that none obscures the others and their legs are gracefully posed. The overall composition seems to create an organic rhythm resulting in a dynamic force which clearly will be even more emphasized when seen in the dark inner sanctuary chapel (mgon khang) of a temple with just some flickering flames of butter-lamps that lit the silver couple in sexual union.