STATUE DE VAJRASATTVA EN BRONZE A PATINE BRUNE

CASHMERE, XIEME SIECLE

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STATUE DE VAJRASATTVA EN BRONZE A PATINE BRUNE
CASHMERE, XIEME SIECLE
Représenté debout en léger tribhanga sur une petite base, la main gauche sur la hanche tenant un ghanta, la droite à hauteur de la poitrine, tenant un vajra, vêtu du dhoti finement incisé de motifs floraux et fermé à la taille par une ceinture, le torse nu rehaussé d'une écharpe et de bijoux, portant un long cordon de fleurs, le visage serein, les cheveux en un chignon orné d'une tiare
Hauteur: 48 cm.(19 in.)

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRASATTVA
KASHMIR, 11TH CENTURY

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This bronze figure can be attributed to the Kashmir casting school when compared with other known examples (i.e. U. von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Visual Dharma Publications Ltd., Hongkong 1981, pl. 22 A and B). However it is not to be excluded that this bronze was casted by a Kashmir artist for a Western Tibetan patron. The upper body and face of this fine sculpture seem to be slightly less muscular and fleshy sculpted than examples with a definite, inscribed, Kashmir attribution. It is indeed well-known that during the eleventh century many Kashmir bronze casters were active in the western part of Tibet. Buddhism had just been re-established after it's iconoclasm of the ninth century and Kashmir artists were invited to create images for the newly built temples.