STATUETTE DE VAJRAGHANTA EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE DORÉTIBET, XVE/XVIE SIÈCLEHimalayan Art Resources item no. 487024.2 cm (9 1/2 in.) highProvenance: A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF VAJRAGHANTATIBET, 15TH/16TH CENTURY西藏 十五/十六世紀 銅鎏金綠金剛鈴母像Published:Arman Neven,Le Tantrisme dans l'art et la Pansee, Bruxelles, 1974, p. 75, no. 372.Exhibited:Le Tantrisme dans l'art et la Pansee, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, March - 10 April 1974.Provenance:With Claude de Marteau, Brussels, by 1978This youthful female stands in the pose ofpratyalidhasana with three eyes holding aghanta aloft in the right hand with the left hand held intarjani mudra.Vajraghanta is one of four directional gatekeepers of various mandalas including Vairochana and Chakrasamvara. She is green in color and stationed in the North. Here, she belongs to the same set as the main deity Kurukulla from this collection (lot 14), acting as a dakini protector to this semi-wrathful dancing goddess.Several other related sculptures include a Mahamaya (, Hong Kong, 2 October 2018, lot 48) and another gatekeeper (Art of Nepal and Tibet, Spink and Sons, London, 1979, p. 52, no. 52), both which share similar treatment in the figures and lotus platform. For another figure of Vajraghanta see ClarkTwo Lamaistic Pantheons, 1937, p. 286.