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Auction archive: Lot number 14

An Important Bronze Figure of Vajrasattva and Consort

Auction 22.03.2000
22 Mar 2000
Estimate
US$80,000 - US$120,000
Price realised:
US$101,500
Auction archive: Lot number 14

An Important Bronze Figure of Vajrasattva and Consort

Auction 22.03.2000
22 Mar 2000
Estimate
US$80,000 - US$120,000
Price realised:
US$101,500
Beschreibung:

An Important Bronze Figure of Vajrasattva and Consort Kashmir, 11th Century Sensitively cast with his legs folded in dhyanasana seated on a small rounded lotus base, holding the vajra and ghanta , wearing a short dhoti finely incised with bands of geometric patterns, his consort sitting on his lap with her legs dangling down between his and her arm wrapped around his neck in close embrace, both adorned with beaded necklaces and bracelets and a ropetwist garland, Vajrasattva's necklace with an inlaid lapis lazuli pendant, all supported by three vividly modeled elephants on a rectangular plinth, the eyes and urnas inlaid with silver, the lips, nipples and lotus petals around base inlaid with copper 6 in. (15.3 cm.) high

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
22 Mar 2000
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

An Important Bronze Figure of Vajrasattva and Consort Kashmir, 11th Century Sensitively cast with his legs folded in dhyanasana seated on a small rounded lotus base, holding the vajra and ghanta , wearing a short dhoti finely incised with bands of geometric patterns, his consort sitting on his lap with her legs dangling down between his and her arm wrapped around his neck in close embrace, both adorned with beaded necklaces and bracelets and a ropetwist garland, Vajrasattva's necklace with an inlaid lapis lazuli pendant, all supported by three vividly modeled elephants on a rectangular plinth, the eyes and urnas inlaid with silver, the lips, nipples and lotus petals around base inlaid with copper 6 in. (15.3 cm.) high

Auction archive: Lot number 14
Auction:
Datum:
22 Mar 2000
Auction house:
Christie's
New York, Rockefeller Center
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