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A PAINTING OF MAHOTTARA HERUKA (CHEMCHOG) SURROUNDED BY BARDO DEITIES, TIBET, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
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2025年10月16日 开拍
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Distemper and gold on cloth. The three-headed Chemchog Heruka standing atop figures of Rudra, each face with a wrathful expression heightened by flaming eyebrows, bulging eyes, and gaping mouth, in yab-yum with his blue consort. The primary hands holding a vajra and ghanta to the chest and the radiating secondary arms clasped around a drum, katvanga, skull-cup, and intestine lasso, all framed by his large outstretched wings, against the aureole of flames of pristine awareness.The central deity is surrounded by five Heruka's (clockwise, from top-left): Ratna Heruka, Padma Heruka, Karma Heruka, Buddha Heruka, and Vajra Heruka; and a host of retinue figures including Bardo deities, all amidst vaporous clouds.Provenance: An old private collection in the United States. The collection of a private college in the northeastern United States, gifted from the above before 1990, and subsequently deaccessed.Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, little creasing, light soiling, minor fading and expected flaking to pigments, minuscule losses. Minuscule touchups are possible. The frame with traces of use.Dimensions: Image size 78 x 53.5 cm, Size incl. frame 111 x 85.5 cmMounted and framed behind glass. (2)Heruka, or 'blood drinker', usually refers to male wrathful deities who adopt a fierce countenance to benefit sentient beings. In this composition, the principal deity and his retinue figures relate to the transmigratory visions in the intermediary stage between death and rebirth known as Bardo, as described in the 'Bardo Thodol' ('Tibetan Book of the Dead'), which quotes: 'The crucial point is indeed that those who have meditated on the formal description of these Herukakaya ('bodies of Heruka'), and also made offerings and praise to them, or, at the very least, have simply seen their painted and sculpted images, may recognize the forms that arise here and attain moksha (liberation).'According to Buddhist scripture, the bardo is a realm or intermediate state between death and rebirth where one's consciousness experiences vivid phenomena, including horrifying imagery related to negative karmic debts. For those with proper Buddhist training, this stage can provide great opportunity for liberation, allowing them to overcome illusion and worldly attachment. Animal-headed deities who inhabit the bardo realms are typically depicted in painting.The fierce and wrathful deities surrounding the central figure represent the visions produced by the psyche of the deceased during the stage of the fifth bardo (known as Chonyi bardo), which succeeds immediately after the moment of death and which precedes the sixth and last stage of bardo when the karmic energy of the individual is transmigrated to a new beginning. The succession of visions and progression to the various stages is dependent on the degree of mental perfection and the karmic nature of the deceased. The bells held by several deities in this current thangka symbolises the void, shunyata, the essence of all reality, dharmata.Literature comparison:The treatment of the flames and the facial features of the deities of the present thangka compare with a thangka of Shri Heruka, dated to the 19th century, from the Rubin Museum of Art, accession number F1997.12.2, illustrated by Jeff Watt on Himalayan Art Resources, item number 194.Auction result comparison: Type: Closely relatedAuction: Christie's New York, 20 September 2006, lot 108Price: USD 19,200 or approx. EUR 26,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: A thangka with the wrathful deities of Bardo, East Tibet, 18th centuryExpert remark: Compare the closely related manner of painting, composition, and subject. Note the size (71 x 51 cm).Auction result comparison: Type: Closely relatedAuction: Bonhams New York, 17 March 2014, lot 37Price: USD 56,250 or approx. EUR 67,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: A thangka of Mahottara Heruka, Eastern Tibet, Palpung, 19th centuryExpert remark: Compare the closely related manner of painting, composition, and subject. Note the size (70.6 x 45.2 cm).

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