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A SILVER INLAID GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF A TAKLUNG KAGYU LAMA TIBET, CIRCA 14TH CENTURY image 1
A SILVER INLAID GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF A TAKLUNG KAGYU LAMA TIBET, CIRCA 14TH CENTURY image 2
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A SILVER INLAID GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE
OF A TAKLUNG KAGYU LAMA
TIBET, CIRCA 14TH CENTURY

5 October 2020, 17:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific Place

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A SILVER INLAID GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE
OF A TAKLUNG KAGYU LAMA

TIBET, CIRCA 14TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no.34062
13.5 cm (5 1/4 in.) high

Footnotes

銅錯銀鎏金達隆噶舉喇嘛像
西藏 約十四世紀

The lama has a distinctive square jaw and a short crop of stippled hair. His thick medication cloak would almost slip off his shoulders, following a popular convention in Taklung Kagyu portraits. Like other early Kagyu portraits, the lama is likened to a buddha, being represented with the 'earth-touching' gesture and a lotus throne with a silver vajra that alludes to the seat at Bodhgaya upon which Shakyamuni attained enlightenment. The lama's monastic shirt and inner robe have floral and geometric engraved patterns and silver-inlaid beading throughout its borders. The present lot compares closely with another gilt bronze lama that likely depicts the same teacher (HAR 24163).

Published
Deborah Ashencaen, Body, Speech and Mind: Buddhist Art from Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia and China, London, 1998, no.10.

Provenance
Spink & Son Ltd, London, 1998
Christie's, New York, 17 September 1999, lot 77

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