STATUETTE DE VAJRASATTVA EN LAITON INCRUSTÉ D'ARGENT TIBET, VERS XIIIE SIÈCLE

STATUETTE DE VAJRASATTVA EN LAITON INCRUSTÉ D'ARGENT
TIBET, VERS XIIIE SIÈCLEHimalayan Art Resources item no. 4647 16 cm (6 1/4 in.) high

A SILVER INLAID BRASS FIGURE OF VAJRASATTVATIBET, CIRCA 13TH CENTURY西藏 約十三世紀 銅錯銀金剛薩埵像Provenance:With Claude de Marteau, Brussels, by 1970sVajrasattva, in his most familiar iconography, balances a vajra on his palm while placing a ritual bell (ghanta) against his left hip. The present lot's faithful rendering in the Late Pala style implies that the sculpture is a very early Tibetan copy and therefore, contemporaneous with the Pala period of Northeastern India. See a Pala period Vajrasattva published in von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, pp. 288-9, no. 72E.