Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A SET OF EIGHT FRAMED TIBETAN 'TEN WRATHFUL KINGS' PAINTINGS
16TH/17TH CENTURY

Each of the Ten Wrathful Kings, depicted with three heads and six arms, with the upper arms holding various implements and the middle pair of arms holding phurbus, all depicted in yab-yum with their consorts and each are surrounded by flesh-eating animal-headed monsters, known as pishaci, 17.5cm x 15.5cm, framed and glazed.

Provenance: from the collection of Mr Nicholas Squire (1949-2024), Suffolk, England, purchased from Spink and Son Ltd in 1995.

Published: Spink, The Mirror of Mind: Art of Vajrayana Buddhism, 1995, p.57, no.36.

The Ten Wrathful Kings, known as dashakrodhaI in Sanskrit or khro bo bcu in Tibetan are a group of fierce deities who often appear in a number of mandalas. The Wrathful Kings depicted in the lot offered here belong to the Vajrakila mandala and include white Krodhavijaya, Krodhahumkara, Hayagriva, Mahabala, white Yamantaka, dark green Amritakundalin, blue Niladanda, blue-green Acala, red Trailokyavijaya, green Aparatija alongside their consorts as well as other other figures and monsters. The Wrathful Kings are rarely depicted as separate individuals, seen in the lot offered here, making these paintings particularly unusual.

十六/十七世紀 忿怒明王像 一組八幅
來源: 英國薩福克郡Nicholas Squire先生（1949-2024）收藏。
出版: Spink, The Mirror of Mind, Art of Vajrayana Buddhism, 1995 年, 頁 57, 36號 。