Fine Chinese Works of Art - 15th November 2022
Lot 540
A CHINESE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF CHAKRASAMVARA AND VAJRAVARAHI
Estimate £2,500 - £3,500 | Hammer £3500
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Description
A CHINESE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF CHAKRASAMVARA AND VAJRAVARAHI
18TH CENTURY
Depicting Chakrasamvara standing in yab-yum with his consort Vajravarahi upon a lotus base, with sixteen heads and thirty-two arms radiating around him, his principal arms holding a khatvanga, a kartika, a kapala and a vajra, both adorned with elaborate beaded jewellery and crowns of skulls, 1.6kg, 21.5cm.
Provenance: from an English private collection, Southampton.
Cf. Christie's London, 6th November 2018, lot 262 for a similar figure of this type.