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Lot 178

TABLIER DE CHAKRASAMVARA EN FORME DE PEAU DE TIGRE ORNÉE DE TÊTES COUPÉES ET CRÂNES EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE REPOUSSÉ ET DORÉ
TIBET OU MONGOLIE, VERS XVIIIE SIÈCLE

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

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TABLIER DE CHAKRASAMVARA EN FORME DE PEAU DE TIGRE ORNÉE DE TÊTES COUPÉES ET CRÂNES EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE REPOUSSÉ ET DORÉ

TIBET OU MONGOLIE, VERS XVIIIE SIÈCLE
(framed and glazed)
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 205032
53 cm (20 7/8 in.) high (sight)

Footnotes

A GILT COPPER ALLOY REPOUSSÉ CHAKRASAMVARA APRON OF A TIGER SKIN, SEVERED HEADS, AND DRIED SKULLS
TIBET OR MONGOLIA, CIRCA 18TH CENTURY

西藏或蒙古 約十八世紀 銅鎏金錘揲勝樂金剛虎皮裙

Impressive for its scale, this tiger skin apron once adorned a statue of equally large size depicting the meditational deity Chakrasamvara. Judging by its treatment in repoussé, the present work was likely made in either the workshops of Dolonnor in Inner Mongolia or an adjacent area in Tibet. A thangka of Chakrasamvara in the British Museum exhibits the same representation of the pelt, and heads (see Ramos, Tantra, 2020, p. 132, fig. 93).

Provenance:
John Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1990s

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