Fine Chinese Works of Art & Paintings - 24th May 2023
Lot 450
A SINO-TIBETAN GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF YAMANTAKA VAJRABHAIRAVA AND VAJRAVETALI
Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £7500
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Description

A SINO-TIBETAN GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF YAMANTAKA VAJRABHAIRAVA AND VAJRAVETALI
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The wrathful deity standing in alidhasana on animals and prostrate figures over a lotus base, holding a kartika and a kapala and his other thirty-two arms radiating around him in various gestures, the central buffalo-form head flanked by other six ferocious faces and two above, all surmounted by flaming hair, the base plate with a double vajra, 540g, 10.5cm.
Provenance: from a private collection, London.
十八/十九世紀 銅鎏金大威德金剛像
來源:倫敦私人收藏。