A gilt-copper alloy figure of Hayagriva, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, 18th century | 清乾隆 十八世紀 鎏金銅馬頭金剛立像
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June 14, 03:20 PM GMT
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30,000 - 40,000 EUR
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A gilt-copper alloy figure of Hayagriva
Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, 18th century
Height 20.6 cm, 8⅛ in.
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Statuette de Hayagriva en alliage de cuivre doré, dynastie Qing, époque Qianlong, XVIIIe siècle
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清乾隆 十八世紀 鎏金銅馬頭金剛立像
French Private Collection, Bordeaux, since the beginning of the 20th century.
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法國私人收藏，波爾多，自二十世紀初起
Hayagriva, known in Tibet as tam drin sand drup, ‘the horse-necked one’, is identified by the three horse heads in the flaming hair. The wrathful meditation deity has three faces, six outstretched arms with hands holding ritual implements including vajra, the hilt of a khadja, and pasha, and stands in pratyalidha with eight legs trampling naga on a lotus pedestal. This six-armed form of the deity is included in the pantheon of the Mongolian Kanjur, see Lokesh Chandra, Buddhist Iconography, New Delhi, 1991, p. 136, fig. 244, and was particularly popular in the Qing dynasty, as is evident in the relatively large number of Tibeto-Chinese gilt bronze examples in public and private collections, such as a very similar eighteenth century gilt bronze in the Phoenix Art Museum, see Jeff Watt, https://www.himalayanart.org/items/66839.