EXTRAORDINARY MASSIVE QING GILT BRONZE BUDDHA
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Description
EXTRAORDINARY MASSIVE Chinese Sino-Tibetan gilt bronze Buddha figure of Magzor Gyalmo, Shri Devi (English: Queen of the Weapon Army, Glorious Goddess), wrathful form of the goddess Sarasvati.
Shri Devi Remati, Queen of the Army Repelling Weapons, with one face and two hands, having bared fangs and gnashing down on a human corpse. Possessing three round red eyes, and the forehead furrowed into a frown, brown hair flowing upwards with licks of flame and smoke issuing forth. The right ear is adorned with a poisonous snake and the left with a lion, crowned with five dry human skulls and a necklace of fifty blood dripping wet heads strung with intestines. Having a lower garment of tiger skin, a snake belt and necklaces. The right hand holds to the sky a stick marked with a vajra. The left holds to the heart a mustard seed and blood filled skull cup. She rides a donkey; standing in the middle of an ocean of blood with rocky crags and out-cropping's oval base. Extensive trace of gilt and red pigments. This generous portion of reppoused gilt bronze Buddha is a rare and unique piece.
Dimensions: 54" H x 40" W
Shri Devi Remati, Queen of the Army Repelling Weapons, with one face and two hands, having bared fangs and gnashing down on a human corpse. Possessing three round red eyes, and the forehead furrowed into a frown, brown hair flowing upwards with licks of flame and smoke issuing forth. The right ear is adorned with a poisonous snake and the left with a lion, crowned with five dry human skulls and a necklace of fifty blood dripping wet heads strung with intestines. Having a lower garment of tiger skin, a snake belt and necklaces. The right hand holds to the sky a stick marked with a vajra. The left holds to the heart a mustard seed and blood filled skull cup. She rides a donkey; standing in the middle of an ocean of blood with rocky crags and out-cropping's oval base. Extensive trace of gilt and red pigments. This generous portion of reppoused gilt bronze Buddha is a rare and unique piece.
Dimensions: 54" H x 40" W
Condition
Over all in EXCELLENT condition. With normal anomalies in nature, missing some stones inlaid, sign of stressed surface, minor scratch & dents. Surface traced wear and or declined to gilding. some missing stones inlaid. Normal, consider ages and wear.
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EDEN Fine Antiques Galleries provides condition reports as a courtesy to our clients and assumes no liability for any error or omission. Any condition statement is given as a courtesy to a client, and is only an opinion and should not be treated as a statement of fact. Descriptions are our opinions and should in no way be construed as a guarantee of any kind as to age, condition, mater.
The bidder assumes responsibility for ensuring that the condition of the item(s) meets with their satisfaction prior to bidding. The absence of a condition statement does not imply that the lot is in perfect condition or completely free from wear and tear, imperfections or the effects of aging.
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EXTRAORDINARY MASSIVE QING GILT BRONZE BUDDHA
Estimate $5,000 - $8,000
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