THANGKA DEPICTING YAMANTAKA AND CONSORT VAJRAVETALI
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
£1,875
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 5 November 2020 at 14:00 GMT
Description
清 雙身大威德金剛唐卡
the eleven-headed wrathful deity charged in alidhasana, twenty-four arms with two at the front holding kartika and kapala bowl, others brandish an array of weapons while legs trample over humans and animals on colourful lotus podium, his blue-bodied consort embraces him from the front with her left leg swinging across his thigh, flayed Yinayaka to their back and surrounded by flaming aureole, in between two arrays of other deities
Dimensions
61cm x 56cm
Footnote
Provenance: Private London collection