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A Sino-Tibetan copper alloy of Rksavaktra Dakini, late 18th Century, circa 1800.

Estimate
80 000 - 100 000 SEK
7 600 - 9 500 EUR
7 980 - 9 980 USD
Hammer price
80 000 SEK
Purchasing info
For condition report contact specialist
Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Senior specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
A Sino-Tibetan copper alloy of Rksavaktra Dakini, late 18th Century, circa 1800.

Showing the bear headed dakini dancing on a corpse. on the back of his tigerskin the character for Wang/King. Height with lotus base 16,3 cm.

Damages, loss of decoration.

Provenance

From the Collection of MD Aage Nørgaard and his wife Marie (-92). Purchased in Hamburg in the late 1940's.

More information

The dakinis are female, wrathful, animal-headed deities of meditation and the bardo intermediate state after death. They are part of the mandala of the Hundred Wrathful and Peaceful Deities