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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF NILAMBARA VAJRAPANI, TIBET, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
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2025年10月16日 开拍
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Heavily cast, the figure strides in alidhasana atop a separately cast lotus base flanked by two prostrate figures. His right hand is raised holding a vajra, while the left arm extends downward in karana mudra. He is clad in an elephant skin and a garland of six severed heads, and richly adorned with beaded and serpent-shaped jewelry, as well as a dharmachakra centered at the belly.The face in a wrathful expression with bulging eyes, furrowed brows below the third eye, and the mouth open revealing gritted teeth and fangs. The long wavy hair swept back and secured by a five-skull crown. The tiara and the jewelry are finely inlaid with turquoises and one lapis lazuli.The lower back with a rectangular aperture retaining its original seal, possibly still holding sacred contents within.Provenance: Galerie Koller, Zurich, 5 November 1980, lot 53. At the time, the piece was valued at CHF 9,800 (excluding any commissions) or EUR 20,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing, and dated 16th-17th century. It should be noted that the Koller Asian art department at the time was led by Berti Aschmann, one of the foremost experts in Tibetan art in the world. A private collection in Germany, acquired from the above and thence by descent in the family.Condition: Very good condition with expected wear and casting irregularities, few minute nicks, small surface scratches, minor losses to inlays, extensive remnants of pigment. The base with losses to the back and areas of corrosion mostly to the interior.Weight: 1,077 g (excl. base), 1,755 g (incl. base) Dimensions: Height 19 cm (excl. base), 22.5 cm (incl. base)Vajrapani, originally a peaceful bodhisattva in the Mahayana tradition, has a wrathful manifestation within the Tantric or Vajrayana Buddhist tradition. The present lot depicts Nilambara Vajrapani, or the Blue-Clad One. In this form Vajrapa?i is adorned with eight serpents in various places, and in his right hand he brandishes a vajra. For the Tibetans, and no doubt for Indian tantric practitioners, this form of Vajrapa?i was highly popular?, to the extent that the Kangyur contains no less than seven tantras and two dharani texts centered on this awakened figure.In this manifestation, the wrathful Vajrapani displays his rightful indignation at hindrances that impede the practitioner on the path to enlightenment, directed toward the foolishness of someone who has encountered the Buddha's teaching and who is, even so, too arrogant and prideful to take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and the Sangha. For both protection and purification, a wrathful Vajrapani is invoked during the Krodhavesha ritual in the Kalachakra practice, in which the practitioner identifies with Vajrapani.Literature comparison:Compare a related smaller Tibetan gilt-bronze figure of Yamantaka, 12.7 cm high, dated c. 16th century, formerly in the Berti Aschmann Collection and now in the Museum Rietberg, inventory number BA 222.Auction result comparison:Type: Closely relatedAuction: Christie's New York, 21 September 2007, lot 192Price: USD 37,000 or approx. EUR 49,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing: A gilt bronze figure of Vajrapani, Tibet, 16th centuryExpert remark: Compare the closely related modeling, manner of casting, gilding, and subject. Note the similar size (22 cm) and the missing base.

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