LOT 1053 A PAINTED LEATHER RITUAL CROWN WITH THE FIVE PRESIDING BUDDH...
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A PAINTED LEATHER RITUAL CROWN WITH THE FIVE PRESIDING BUDDHAS TIBET OR MONGOLIA, 19TH CENTURYA PAINTED LEATHER RITUAL CROWN WITH THE FIVE PRESIDING BUDDHASTIBET OR MONGOLIA, 19TH CENTURY Himalayan Art Resources item no. 4726 Each panel: 18 x 11.5 cm (7 1/8 x 4 1/2 in.) approx.西藏或蒙古 十九世紀 皮質彩繪五佛法冠This five petal crown represents the Five Tathagatas, or Buddhas of the Five Directions: Amitabha, Vairocana, Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava and Amoghasiddhi. Worn during ritual empowerments that transmute defilements into purity, the crown symbolizes the practitioner as a pure and perfect being in a likeness akin to the Buddha. Believed to have derived from wooden blade-shaped lobes from India, as indicated on a late 7th or early 8th century stone sculpture of Vajrapani (Huntington & Bangdel, Circle of Bliss, 2003, no. 52), the five-fold floral crown became a standard motif in the 13th and 14th centuries in Tibet. The earliest known iteration of this type appears on a preserved lobe dated to the 12th/13th century in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1997.152). Compare with a closely related example featuring painted buddhas framed within a gilded repoussé border, in the Royal Ontario Museum (HAR 77528).Provenance:Private California Collection, acquired in Hong Kong in the 1980s
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