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STATUE DE DAMCHEN GARWA NAGPO EN BOIS PEINT
MONGOLIE, FIN DU XIXE/DÉBUT DU XXE SIÈCLE

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

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STATUE DE DAMCHEN GARWA NAGPO EN BOIS PEINT

MONGOLIE, FIN DU XIXE/DÉBUT DU XXE SIÈCLE
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 205072
129 x 85 x 49 cm (50 3/4 x 33 1/2 x 19 1/4 in.)

Footnotes

A PAINTED WOOD FIGURE OF DAMCHEN GARWA NAGPO
MONGOLIA, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

蒙古 十九世紀末/二十世紀初 彩繪木雕騎羊護法像

Damchen Garwa Nagpo, the Blacksmith, was originally a local Tibetan deity prior to his subjugation and conversion into Buddhism by Padmasambhava. Seated atop a mountain goat with twisted horns, he wields a vajra hammer in his raised right arm while holding a blacksmith's bellows fashioned from the skin of a tiger in his left. As the popular worship of this protector deity grew in Tibet, China, and Mongolia, so did his depiction in paintings and sculpture during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Compare with an image depicting Makzor Gyelmo, identified as a specific form of Paldhen Lhamo, in the Rubin Museum of Art (C2002.38.1), who shares a similar color scheme and liveliness of movement with the present figure.

Provenance:
Ashencaen and Leonov, London, 2000s

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