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STATUE DU YAMANTAKA EN BRONZE
CHINE
Yamantaka is standing in pratyalidhasana on various divinities and animals with both principle hands embracing his consort and holding the karttrika and kapala. His other thirty-two radiate around his body showing the tarjanimudra. He wears a beaded apron, mala of severed heads and jewellery. His bull-head displays a ferocious facial expression, six other heads framing the central one and topped with three more heads surrounded by his flaming hairdo. His consort holds the kapala and karttrika. The front of the base cast with the seven-character Qianlong mark ; unsealed.
17 in. (43 cm.) high
CHINE
Yamantaka is standing in pratyalidhasana on various divinities and animals with both principle hands embracing his consort and holding the karttrika and kapala. His other thirty-two radiate around his body showing the tarjanimudra. He wears a beaded apron, mala of severed heads and jewellery. His bull-head displays a ferocious facial expression, six other heads framing the central one and topped with three more heads surrounded by his flaming hairdo. His consort holds the kapala and karttrika. The front of the base cast with the seven-character Qianlong mark ; unsealed.
17 in. (43 cm.) high
Provenance
The Harry Handel Collection of Chinese and Himalayan Buddhist Sculpture, acquired in the 1950s at the Gurie Gallery, Montreal, thence by descent within the family. A further item from this collection is lot 276.
Harry Handel (1916-1972) was was a renowned figure in Canadian artistic and cultural circles. Born in Montreal, he opened a bookstore called ‘Everyman’s Bookshop’ in the 1930s. Along with his wife Esther Melzack, they transformed their bookstore into a local intellectual center specialized in exploration, anthropology, religion and art. Alex Gurie, the owner of Gurie Gallery in Montreal, was a close friend of Handel’s and taught him to appreciate and collect Asian artworks.
Harry Handel (1916-1972) was was a renowned figure in Canadian artistic and cultural circles. Born in Montreal, he opened a bookstore called ‘Everyman’s Bookshop’ in the 1930s. Along with his wife Esther Melzack, they transformed their bookstore into a local intellectual center specialized in exploration, anthropology, religion and art. Alex Gurie, the owner of Gurie Gallery in Montreal, was a close friend of Handel’s and taught him to appreciate and collect Asian artworks.
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A BRONZE FIGURE OF YAMANTAKA
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