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Lot 122

COURONNE RITUELLE POLYCHROME À DÉCOR DE BOUDDHAS DES CINQ DIRECTIONS
TIBET, VERS XVIIIE SIÈCLE

15 December 2022, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche

€3,000 - €5,000

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COURONNE RITUELLE POLYCHROME À DÉCOR DE BOUDDHAS DES CINQ DIRECTIONS

TIBET, VERS XVIIIE SIÈCLE
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 205090
Each leaf 18 cm (7 1/8 in.) x 9.5 cm (3 3/4 in.)

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A POLYCHROMED RITUAL CROWN WITH THE FIVE PRESIDING BUDDHAS
TIBET, CIRCA 18TH CENTURY

西藏 約十八世紀 彩繪五方佛法冠

This five-petal crown represents the Five Tathagatas, or Buddhas of the Five Directions: Amitabha, Vairocana, Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava and Amoghasiddhi. Worn during ritual empowerments that transmute defilements into purity, the crown symbolizes the practitioner as a pure and perfect being in a likeness akin to the Buddha.

Believed to have derived from wooden blade-shaped lobes from India, as indicated on a late 7th or early 8th century stone sculpture of Vajrapani (Huntington & Bangdel, Circle of Bliss, 2003, no. 52), the five-fold floral crown became a standard motif in the 13th and 14th centuries in Tibet. The earliest known iteration of this type appears on a preserved lobe dated to the 12th/13th century in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1997.152).

Provenance:
Ashencaen and Leonov, London, 2000s

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