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PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN FAMILY COLLECTION
A BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRADHAKA
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Details
A BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRADHAKA
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The figure originally forms part of a censer and is very finely and expressively cast seated with crossed legs on a lotus base with arms crossed in vajrahumkara mudra, adorned with a five-skull diadem. His head reared back with his face in a wrathful countenance, baring his fangs, and with his hair in wavy strands down his back and topped by a half-vajra finial.
6 in. (15 cm.) high, box
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The figure originally forms part of a censer and is very finely and expressively cast seated with crossed legs on a lotus base with arms crossed in vajrahumkara mudra, adorned with a five-skull diadem. His head reared back with his face in a wrathful countenance, baring his fangs, and with his hair in wavy strands down his back and topped by a half-vajra finial.
6 in. (15 cm.) high, box
Provenance
Collection of Eugen Müller-Kaiser (1890-1962)
Literature
Osatasiatika in Nurtingen, Germany, 1962, no. 202
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Sibley Ngai