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A gilt copper alloy figure of Pehar
Mongolia or China, 18th century

18 September 2013, 10:00 EDT
New York

Sold for US$8,125 inc. premium

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A gilt copper alloy figure of Pehar

Mongolia or China, 18th century
Finely cast, the worldly protector balancing on a finely incised saddle cloth over a robust lion with a thick flowing mane, his radiating arms outstretched around his three faces with fierce expressions and wearing a cymbal-shaped hat (tipshu) incised on the brim.
6 in. (15.2 cm) high

Footnotes

Defined as the 'activity' aspect (Thinley gyi Gyalpo) this is the most common form of the Worldly Protector from the Nyingma tradition. Compare with another in Gordon, The Iconography of Tibetan Lamaism, New York, 1972, p. 93.

Provenance:
Private New York Collection, acquired in the early 1980s

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