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Lot 128

STATUETTE DE SIMHAMUKHA EN PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PEINT
MONGOLIE, XIXE SIÈCLE

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

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STATUETTE DE SIMHAMUKHA EN PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PEINT

MONGOLIE, XIXE SIÈCLE
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 205094
The figure 46 cm (18 1/8 in.) high;
With stand: 56 cm (22 1/8 in.) high

Footnotes

A LARGE PAINTED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ FIGURE OF SIMHAMUKHA
MONGOLIA, 19TH CENTURY

蒙古 十九世紀 彩繪紙塑獅面空行母像

Identified by her ferocious lion head, Simhamukha dances atop a naked, supine figure in ardhaparyankasana. She raises a kartrika (chopper knife) with her right hand while holding a kapala (skull cup) in her left. A garland of severed heads and a red tiger skin, draw the viewer's attention to her prominent crown of skulls, wild mane, and flaming eyebrows.

Simhamukha is both an important retinue deity of the Chakrasamavara tantra, and a yidam (meditational deity) in her own right. In the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism, she is revered as a manifestation of its founder, Padmasambhava. Compare with a Mongolian example in silver, sold at Bonhams, New York, 11 September 2011, lot 1085.

Provenance:
Suzi Lebasi, Tasmania, 2000s

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