A COPPER ALLOY STATUE OF JAMBHALA, 16TH CENTURY

A GILT COPPER-ALLOY FIGURE OF JAMBHALA, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
Tibetan-Chinese, late Ming dynasty. The richly gilded figure finely cast seated in lalitasana on a double-lotus base, adorned in a long flowing dhoti open at the chest, revealing sumptuous jewelry, the stern expression framed under an elaborate five-leaf crown, holding a mongoose in the left hand.

Provenance: From the collection of Georg Weifert (1850-1937). Thence by descent in the same family. Weifert was a Serbo-Austrian industrialist and the first governor of the Federal Bank of the Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.
Condition: Fine condition with old wear and traces of use, the sealing plate warped, some surface scratches and smaller dents, the base and one heavenly band are slightly bent in some areas.

Weight: 1,063.2 g
Dimensions: Height 18 cm

Note the elaborately case heavenly bands, the neatly incised earrings and the superb openwork mandorla with its dense, curling flames in high relief. The sealing plate bears a vishvajra symbol.

鎏金合金銅藏巴拉坐蓮像，十六世紀至十七世紀
漢藏，明末。造像鎏金厚重，藏巴拉以自在坐坐於雙蓮花座上，身披多提紗，敞胸，露出奢華的瓔珞珠寶，精緻的五葉冠下嚴厲的表情，左手舉著貓鼬。

來源：Georg Weifert (1850-1937)收藏，同一家族保存至今 。Weifert曾爲塞爾維亞中央銀行大班以及塞爾維亞、克羅地亞與斯洛文尼亞聯邦銀行大班。
品相：品相良好，老磨損和使用痕跡，密封板翹曲，表面有一些划痕和較小的凹痕，底部和一條飄帶略微彎曲。

重量：1,063.2 克
尺寸： 高18 厘米