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A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF VAJRAPANI
TIBET, 17TH/18TH CENTURY

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3 October 2017, 18:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific Place

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A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF VAJRAPANI

TIBET, 17TH/18TH CENTURY
Heavily cast in multiple parts consisting of the base, mandorla, figure, crown side-ribbons, and earrings.
Himalayan Art Resources item no.2428
46 cm (18 in.) high

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Vajrapani, the fierce protector of Buddhism and its flock, looms with a large belly and fierce snarl achieved with high cheekbones and a wrinkled nose. His tiger skin lower garment is exceptionally well rendered with an accomplished face over the left knee and brawny brandished claws about his shins. Meanwhile, the mandorla's swirling flames are cast with crisp precision, capturing their twists and turns as if rendered with a fine controlled brush.

A closely related 18th-century ungilded Vajrapani, standing on a Pala style base with the same treatment to the face and crown, was sold at Sotheby's, New York, 19 September 1999, lot 63. Another was published in Ghose, In The Footsteps of the Buddha, Hong Kong, 1998, p.242, no.58. The present sculpture's 'teardrop' lotus petals also compare to that of a large figure of Vajrabhairava published in von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, p.485, no.136F.

Provenance
Leo Van der Veen Collection, Canada, before 1975
Thence by descent


金鋼手菩薩銅像
西藏，十七／十八世紀
像身、底座、背光、飾帶及耳環分別鑄造。
喜馬拉雅藝術資源網2428號
高46釐米（18英吋）

400,000-600,000港元

金鋼手菩薩乃佛教之憤怒相護法神。其體壯腹圓，怒髮衝冠，面目猙獰。虎皮裙刻畫精細，虎面生動懸於膝間，虎爪強壯緊抱菩薩小腿。與此同時，背光上的火焰紋亦精雕細琢，到位地捕捉了烈焰的飄忽感，好似用畫筆勾勒而出。

蘇富比紐約於1999年9月19日售出一尊十八世紀金鋼手像（拍品63號），雖然其蓮座仿帕拉風格，但是面部與寶冠的處理與本拍品十分相似。另有一尊可比造像出版於Ghose，法相傳真：古代佛教藝術，香港，1998年，頁242，58號。本拍品的淚珠狀蓮瓣與另一尊大體量大威德金剛造像的蓮瓣相似，出版於 von Schroeder，印度與西藏的銅造像，香港，1981年，頁485，136F號。

來源
Leo Van der Veen私人珍藏，加拿大，1975年以前
後由家族傳承

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