TIBETO-CHINOIS, XVIIIEME SIECLE

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STATUE DE VAJRAVARAHI EN BRONZE DORE
TIBETO-CHINOIS, XVIIIEME SIECLE
Représentée dans une posture de danse, le pied gauche écrasant un être humain, lui-même allongé sur un lotus placé dans un triangle de flammes reposant sur trois crânes et une base lotiforme, la main droite brandissant le karttrika, la gauche tenant le kapala, vêtue d'une peau de tigre, parée d'une guirlande de têtes, du channavira, d'une écharpe flottante et de bijoux, le visage féroce, laqué or, les détails peints, le front ceint d'une tiare de crânes, les cheveux en flammes rouges hirsutes desquelles émerge une tête de sanglier, non scellé
Hauteur: 27 cm. (10 5/8 in.)

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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRAVARAHI
TIBETO-CHINESE, 18TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

Vajravarahi or the Diamond Sow is the highest-ranking dakini as well yogini and she stands on Bhairava, a form of Shiva. In tantric texts she is described either as an independent deity or as a consort of certain wrathful gods. As an independent deity she has seven iconographic manifestations that are differentiated by colour, number of heads, postures and attributes. As tantric partner she acts as the principal wisdom-goddess of for instance the tutelary deities Hevajra and Samvara. She also presides over a mandala with four other dakinis. Vajravarahi is the only goddess in Tibet who reincarnates in a recognised incarnation as the abbotess of the Samding monastery.

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