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TIBET, 16TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 207024
11.5 cm (4 1/2 in.) high
Footnotes
西藏 十六世紀 銅鎏金忿怒蓮師像
Provenance
Important Private Asian Collection
Dorje Drollo, one of the Eight Manifestations of Padmasambhava, represents the great tantric master in a wrathful form associated with the subjugation of obstacles and hostile forces that impede the Buddhist teachings. Particularly important within the Nyingma tradition, his fierce appearance expresses enlightened activity rather than malevolence.
He is depicted in a dynamic kneeling posture upon a recumbent tigress. His right arm is raised holding a vajra, while his left extends outward holding a phurba (ritual dagger). His wrathful expression is defined by wide eyes beneath strongly arched brows and an open mouth, framed by long hair falling behind the shoulders. Layered robes envelop the compact body, their deeply modelled folds sweeping across the torso and around the raised knee. Beneath him, the tigress turns its head outward with bared teeth, its coat rendered with dense incised markings. The group rests on a broad lotus pedestal articulated with rounded petals and a beaded upper border.
The composition finds an earlier parallel in a 15th -century figure of Dorje Drollo sold at Christie's, New York, 21 March 2001, lot 77, which shares the dynamic posture, layered robes, recumbent tigress and closely related lotus base.
An especially close stylistic comparison may be drawn with a 16th-century Tibetan bronze figure of Dorje Drollo in the Carolyn and Wesley Halpert Collection (HAR 90836), which shares similarly compact proportions, deeply folded robes, a comparable treatment of the tigress, similarly incised hair, and a broad lotus pedestal.