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Lot 152

STATUETTE DE VISHVARUPA EN LAITON
NÉPAL, XIXE SIÈCLE

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

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STATUETTE DE VISHVARUPA EN LAITON

NÉPAL, XIXE SIÈCLE
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 205061
20.5 cm (8 1/8 in.) high

Footnotes

A BRASS FIGURE OF VISHVARUPA
NEPAL, 19TH CENTURY

尼泊爾 十九世紀 維斯瓦鲁帕銅像

This brass figure likely represents the cosmic, universal form of Vishnu as Vishvarupa, accompanied here by his female consort. During the Late Malla period, representations of Hindu and Buddhist deities with a multitude of arms and heads served as visual aids for teachers who sought to clarify the complex systems of esoteric meditational practices to their disciples.

See a stone figure bearing similar attributes but without a consort, published in Grewenig and Rist, eds., Buddha - 2000 Years of Buddhist Art: 232 Masterpieces, Völklingen, 2016, pp. 346-7, no. 146, as well as a figure of Chakrasamvara as Vishvarupa Mahasamvara, published in Huntington and Bangdel, The Circle of Bliss, 2003, pp. 282-3, no. 77.

Provenance:
Alain Presencer, UK, 2000s

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