LOT 0146 Mongolia,18th century or later A polychrome wood figure of C...
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拍品描述:Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13857. HAR编号13857 For further information on the condition of this lot please contact Alexandra.Farahnik@sothebys.com Acquired in Holland, 1998. This extraordinary sculpture depicts the dancing Chitipati, fierce protectors of tantric practitioners in Vajrayana Buddhist imagery and ritual. In the Tantric context, the charnel ground is both a literal and metaphorical arena for Buddhist practice – a potent reminder of the impermanence of life; the mental constructs of aversion and impurity; and the craving for a human body and future rebirths. Chitipati are associated with the eight great charnel grounds (astamahasmashana) of the Chakrasamvara and Vajrayogini mandalas, and invoked as the skeletal protectors of Tantric practitioners. Chitipati are typically depicted completely denuded of flesh, with a third eye, wearing a five-leaf or five-skull crown, holding kinkara-danda (skeleton clubs) or other ritual implements aloft, and with knees intertwined. The ghouls and spirits of the charnel ground, including the kinkara, are governed by the Chitipati. Another polychrome wood figure of dancing Chitipati figures is in the Tibet Museum, Gruyere, catalogued as Mongolian, 18th century, is illustrated in Etienne Bock, Jean-Marc Falcombello and Jenny Magali, Buddhist Art of Tibet. In Milarepa’s Footsteps, Symbolism and Spirituality, Paris, 2022, ABS302. See also a bronze figure of the dancing Chitipati in the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, iconographically close to the current lot, illustrated in Barbara Lipton and Nima Dorjee Ragnubs, Treasures of Tibetan Art: Collections of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, New York, 1996, pl. 89. See also a large gilt-bronze figure, probably depicting an individual Chitipati, sold in these rooms, 3rd October 2017, lot 3144. 此尸陀林像,相对起舞,跃然如生。尸陀林为胜乐金刚与金刚亥母坛城中八大寒林之护法神,多干枯无肉,三眼,着五叶或五骷髅冠,手持法器,两膝交错,寒林中的鬼神,均为尸陀林所掌管。 参考纽约雅克马歇西藏艺术博物馆藏尸陀林对舞铜像,图见 Barbara Lipton 及 Nima Dorjee Ragnubs,《Treasures of Tibetan Art: Collections of the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art》,纽约,1996年,编号89。另见一尊鎏金铜尸陀林像,虽形单只影,灵动可畏,售于香港苏富比2017年10月3日,编号3144。
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