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尺寸：高8 ½ in
年代：14-15世纪
质地：铜鎏金
风格：西藏
来源：拍卖会
成交：25,000美元(2018.12)
参阅：纽约佳士得
鉴赏：
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRADHARA
TIBET, 14TH CENTURY
8 ½ in. high

Provenance
Josef Neumann Collection, Sydney.
Lawsons Sydney, 28 April 1999, lot 314.
Phillip Adams Collection, Australia.
Bonham's New York, 13 March 2017, lot 3077.

Lot Essay
The heavenly embodiment of wisdom, Vajradhara, bears a bell (Tib. dril bu) and vajra (Tib. rdo rje) to represent his primordial wisdom and mastery of skillful means, respectively. The important meditational deity is cast here in a distinctly Tibetan style with an elongated torso, simple turquoise ornaments, and implements floating above his shoulders atop open lotuses. While one beholder of this treasure painted its hair in a deep blue, one can still see the attention paid by the artist to the appearance of the strands and the small, curled-up tuft that sits just at the base of its neck. Cold gold covers the buddha’s face and significant traces of the pigments that articulate its facial features also remain. The delicate, yet tubular physique of the present example very closely matches that of a gilt-bronze figure of Vajrasattva from the Collection I. Nunlist, Switzerland published by U. von Schroeder as belonging to the 13th or 14th century in Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1983/2008, pg. 424, fig. 110B.