尺寸：高20cm
年代：清代乾隆
质地：合金铜
风格：乾隆宫廷
来源：拍卖会
成交：48,750欧元(2011.06)
参阅：巴黎苏富比
鉴赏：
Statuette de Vajrapani en bronze
Chine, dynastie Qing, marque et époque Qianlong (1736-1795)
A BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRAPANI, CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG (1736-1795)
debout sur un socle lotiforme, brandissant un sceptre vajra dans la main droite, le visage menaçant auréolé d'un diadème à cinq pointes et d'une chevelure enflammée rouge, marque à sept caractères dans un cartouche rectangulaire sur le socle, deux inscriptions dédicatoires à quatre caractères incisées à l'avant et à l'arrière du socle, traces de pigments et dorure
20 cm, 8 in.

Catalogue Note

The present finely cast bronze figure of Vajrapani, 'the Holder of the Vajra' belongs to a well known group of Tibetan Buddhist sculptures made on the orders of the Qianlong emperor. Vajrapani is the bodhisattva who represents the power of all the Buddhas. To many devote Buddhists he came to symbolize the removal of obstacles and the conquest of negativity through fierce determination as seen in the vajra firmly held in his hands.

Compare a statue of Vajrapani illustrated in Cultural Relics of Tibetan Buddhism Collected in the Qing Palace, Hong Kong, 1992, pl.70, together with a figure of Vajradhara cast with a similar seven-character Qianlong mark on the base, as seen on the present example, pl. 73. See also a larger bronze figure of Trailokyavijayavajra with a seven-character Qianlong mark illustrated in the catalogue of the exhibition Splendors of China's, the Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong, Dallas Museum, 2004-2005, ill. 172. See further three figures belonging to this special group of Tibetan Buddhist sculptures sold at Christie's Paris, 8 June 2010, lots 311, 312 and 313.