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A bronze seated figure of a Yamantaka
Song dynasty
The sturdily cast deity of wealth portrayed in a trinity of entities, seated on a caparisoned recumbent water buffalo with all three pairs of legs spread open, the body adorned with a skull necklace and a sash across his bare chest and wearing a simple dhoti with three pairs of arms extended in various mudra, his six heads showing different expressions of fierceness and benevolence.
22.5cm high.
The sturdily cast deity of wealth portrayed in a trinity of entities, seated on a caparisoned recumbent water buffalo with all three pairs of legs spread open, the body adorned with a skull necklace and a sash across his bare chest and wearing a simple dhoti with three pairs of arms extended in various mudra, his six heads showing different expressions of fierceness and benevolence.
22.5cm high.
Sold for
HK$ 100,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Yamantaka is the wrathful manifestation of Manjusri, the bodhisattva of wisdom, and also a dharmapala or dharma protector. In Mahayana Buddhism, Yamantaka is also the deity of the Highest Yoga Tantra class in Vajrayana.
宋 青銅大威德金剛坐水牛像
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