A fine gilt-bronze figure of Palden Lhamo18th century
The wrathful protector seated on the back of a mule covered with a saddlecloth made of human skin with two 'dice of fate' fixed to the bridle, holding a skull cup in the left hand and the right hand raised in karana mudra, richly adorned with beaded jewellery and a garland of severed heads, the red flaming hair surmounted by a five-skull crown, all raised on a fixed base of turbulent waves. 17.5cm (6 7/8in) high.注脚十八世紀 銅鎏金吉祥天母班旦拉姆像

Himalayan Art Resources item no.16780
喜馬拉雅藝術資源網16780號

Provenance:
Henry Harrison Getty (1838-1919), by repute
Alice Getty (d.1946), by repute
Courtenay Morgan, Viscount Tredegar (1867-1934), by repute
Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar (1893-1949), by repute
Professor and Mrs Bellerby, by repute
Mark Dineley (1901-1975)
Peter Dineley (1938-2018), and thence by descent

Noted in the handwritten family 'A Catalogue of the Dineley Collection of Tibetiana and Associated Buddhistic Objects', early 1960s, p.114.

來源：
傳亨利·哈里遜·蓋蒂舊藏（1838-1919年）
傳愛麗絲·蓋蒂舊藏（卒於1946年）
傳卓德嘉子爵考特尼·摩根舊藏（1867-1934年）
傳特里迪格子爵二世艾文·摩根舊藏（1893-1949年）
傳貝勒比教授及夫人舊藏
馬克·戴尼利舊藏（1901-1975年）
彼得·戴尼利舊藏（1938-2018年），並由家族繼承

記載於戴尼利家族手稿《戴尼利家族的西藏州和相關的佛教物品收藏目錄》'A Catalogue of the Dineley Collection of Tibetiana and Associated Buddhistic Objects'，1960年代初，頁114。

Palden Lhamo, the Glorious Goddess is the only female among the eight great Dharmapala, the guardians of Buddhism. Compare with a similar figure of Palden Lhamo, China, 19th century in the Crow Collection of Asian Art (Himalayan Art Resources item no.58808). See also a figure of Palden Lhamo, Tibet, 17th century, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Buddhist Status of Tibet, Shanghai, 2003, p.197, no.188.

吉祥天母紅髮衝冠，頭戴金蛇釵，額頂骷顱頭冠，一面三目，面露憤怒，肩披飄帶颺起，右手朝天手持法杖（已佚），左手持噶不拉血碗，身披人頭瓔珞，以蛇串之，雙乳下垂，肚臍封太陽形飾物，半跏趺坐於人皮之上，人皮鋪於騾背，騾項戴串鈴，身繞蛇帶人頭瓔珞，左前腿下掛黑白骰子，四蹄快走貌，腳踏血海，其間漂浮人體殘肢，封底正中鏨刻十字金剛杵。

吉祥天母為藏密護法女神之首，形象頗為恐怖兇殘，然則能報一方平安，綏靖瘟疫與邪崇。對比克洛亞洲藝術舊藏一件十九世紀吉祥天母（喜馬拉雅藝術資源網58808號）。可參考北京故宮藏一件西藏十七世紀吉祥天母像，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品大系：藏傳佛教造像》，上海，2003年，頁197，編號188。