佛像网

尺寸：高13cm
年代：12世纪
质地：合金铜
风格：西藏西部
来源：拍卖会
成交：11,250美元(2018.03)
参阅：纽约苏富比
鉴赏：

A BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRAPANI Western Tibet, 12th Century
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13468.
佛像网, 编号: 金刚手菩萨:金刚手菩萨082
Height: 5 1/8 in. (13 cm)

Provenance
Acquired privately, 1988.

Catalogue Note
The current work was likely part of a triad, common during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in Western Tibet. Triads depicting Vajrapani often included the bodhisattvas Manjushri and Avalokiteshvara, connoting wisdom, compassion and discriminating clarity. This figure has been identified as the bodhisattva Vajrapani, due to the vajra or sceptre in the right hand. However due to the ghanta or bell in the left hand, this could also be a form of the bodhisattva Vajrasattva.