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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
A Bronze Figure of Achala
TIBET, 13TH CENTURY
Details
A Bronze Figure of Achala
Tibet, 13th Century
The wrathful protector striding in alidhasana over prostrated figures atop a lotus base with beaded petals and inlaid with turquoise, holding his attributes of a sword and a noose, wearing tigerskins, swirling sashes, inlaid jewelry, and coiled snakes, his face in a fierce countenance with bared fangs and bulging eyes with hair rising in a flaming bun
11 7/8 in. (30 cm.) high
Tibet, 13th Century
The wrathful protector striding in alidhasana over prostrated figures atop a lotus base with beaded petals and inlaid with turquoise, holding his attributes of a sword and a noose, wearing tigerskins, swirling sashes, inlaid jewelry, and coiled snakes, his face in a fierce countenance with bared fangs and bulging eyes with hair rising in a flaming bun
11 7/8 in. (30 cm.) high
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Body, Speech and Mind, London, Spink & Son, Ltd., 1998, p. 10, cat. no. 40.
Exhibition catalogue, Monasterios y lamas del Tibet, Madrid, Fundación "La Caixa", 2000, p. 96, cat. no. 5.
Exhibition catalogue, Monasterios y lamas del Tibet, Madrid, Fundación "La Caixa", 2000, p. 96, cat. no. 5.
Exhibited
London, Spink & Son, Ltd., Body, Speech, and Mind, cat. no. 2, December 1998.
Madrid, Fundación "La Caixa", Monasterios y lamas del Tibet, cat. no. 5, November 2000-January 2001.
Madrid, Fundación "La Caixa", Monasterios y lamas del Tibet, cat. no. 5, November 2000-January 2001.
