A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF GAURI
TIBET, 16TH CENTURY Himalayan Art Resources item no.16885 18.5 cm (7 1/4 in.) high
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銅鎏金少女空行母像西藏 十六世紀Holding a curved ritual knife in her raised right hand and a rohita fish in her left, this dancing figure represents Gauri, one of the eight retinue goddesses of Hevajra. Her lithe physique and tilted waist do not detract from Gauri's ferocity, who glares at the viewer with bulging eyes, bared fangs, and a garland of skulls hanging from her shoulders. Gauri often appears as part of sculptural or painted mandalas surrounding Hevajra, but rarely as a stand-alone figure. For an earlier sculptural image of Gauri, see HAR 23557. Also compare with a dakini in von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, p. 475, no. 131D for a similar skull band and skull crown and another gilt Vajravarahi in the Tibet Museum, Gruyere (ABS 254). Provenance Private Collection, Bloomington, Indiana, acquired in New York in 1995