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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