Period:Unknown Production date:15thC-16thC
Materials:bronze, silver, copper,
Technique:cast, inlaid,
Subjects:buddha (Adibuddha)
Dimensions:Height: 24 centimetres
Description:
A Sino-Tibetan figure of the Adibuddha Vajradhara seated on a lotus throne; crowned and ornamented, holding a vajra (thunderbolt) and a ghanta (handbell) before him, wrists crossed. Made of bronze and copper and silver inlay.
IMG
![图片[1]-figure BM-1979-0514.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Bronzes/mid_00162545_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-figure BM-1979-0514.1-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Unknown/Bronzes/mid_00332316_001.jpg)
Comments:Zwalf 1985The Supreme (Ādi) Buddha was represented both as Vajrasattva and Vajradhara but they are iconographically distinct (cf. no. 162). Always crowned and ornamented, Vajradhara holds the ‘vajra’ and ‘ghaṇṭā’ before him, wrists crossed. Here his crown, necklaces and breast ornaments, armlets and bracelets all have silver inlay; he wears patterned upper and lower garments, the latter secured by a silver-inlaid girdle. Both garments seem to have an inner lining to judge from the copper inlay where they are folded back. The face, with silver-inlaid eyes and copper lips, is gilded and the hair painted blue in the Tibetan tradition. Stylistically there is some affinity with the Sino-Tibetan bronzes of the 15th century.
Materials:bronze, silver, copper,
Technique:cast, inlaid,
Subjects:buddha (Adibuddha)
Dimensions:Height: 24 centimetres
Description:
A Sino-Tibetan figure of the Adibuddha Vajradhara seated on a lotus throne; crowned and ornamented, holding a vajra (thunderbolt) and a ghanta (handbell) before him, wrists crossed. Made of bronze and copper and silver inlay.
IMG
Comments:Zwalf 1985The Supreme (Ādi) Buddha was represented both as Vajrasattva and Vajradhara but they are iconographically distinct (cf. no. 162). Always crowned and ornamented, Vajradhara holds the ‘vajra’ and ‘ghaṇṭā’ before him, wrists crossed. Here his crown, necklaces and breast ornaments, armlets and bracelets all have silver inlay; he wears patterned upper and lower garments, the latter secured by a silver-inlaid girdle. Both garments seem to have an inner lining to judge from the copper inlay where they are folded back. The face, with silver-inlaid eyes and copper lips, is gilded and the hair painted blue in the Tibetan tradition. Stylistically there is some affinity with the Sino-Tibetan bronzes of the 15th century.
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