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尺寸：高44cm
年代：14世纪
质地：合金铜
风格：西藏
来源：拍卖会
成交：74,500美元(2012.03)
参阅：纽约佳士得
鉴赏：
A Bronze Figure of Mahachakra Vajrapani
Tibet, 14th Century
Very expressively cast with the three-headed six-armed deity stepping in alidasana embracing Mamaki, he wearing a tiger skin dhoti and holding a vajra, she wearing an elaborate bone apron and holding the chopper, their faces with animated expressions surmounted by an elaborate floral tiara crowned by a further image of Vajrapani in the headdress, the dhotis finely incised with floral patterns and hatching imitating fur
17 3/8 in. (44 cm.) high

Provenance
Spink and Son, Ltd., London, 1990s
Christie's New York, 23 September 2004, lot 127

Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Body, Speech and Mind, Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1998, cat. no. 3, p. 12
Exhibition catalogue, Monasterios y lamas del Tibet, Fundación “La Caixa,” Madrid, 2000, cat. no. 6, p. 97

Exhibited
“Body, Speech and Mind”, Spink & Son, Ltd., London, December 1998
“Monasterios y lamas del Tibet”, Fundación “La Caixa,” Madrid, November 2000 - January 2001