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Lot 621
A POLYCHROMED WOOD FIGURE OF CHITIPATI
TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
14 – 24 March 2023, 10:00 EDT
Online, New York

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A POLYCHROMED WOOD FIGURE OF CHITIPATI

TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 1422
17 in. (45 cm) high

Footnotes

西藏 十九世紀 彩繪木雕屍陀林主像

Vivaciously dancing, this embracing skeletal couple serves to exorcise obstacles to enlightenment and highlight the transience of time. Here, the male holds a stick made of a human spine and skull-cup filled with blood. Aside from holding a sheaf of grain, his partner holds a vase that has a shape more commonly linked to the Gelugkpa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. See a painted wooden pair of dancing Chitipatis in the Tibet Museum, Gruyères (ABS 302).

Provenance:
The Richard Harris Collection, Chicago

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