A gilt copper-alloy figure of KurukullaTibet, 18th century
The four-armed deity cast dancing with the right leg raised and bent at the knee, the left leg on a prostrate human figure, the principal hands in prithvi mudra and the remaining hands holding an axe and a lotus stem, heavily embellished with a garland of severed heads and beaded jewellery inset with turquoise. 18.8cm (7 1/2in) high.注脚西藏 十八世紀 銅鎏金智行佛母像

Himalayan Art Resources item no.16783
喜馬拉雅藝術資源網16783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.122.

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122。

Kurukulla, the Goddess of Power is a Tantric Buddhist meditational deity originating in India. She is particularly associated with rites of enchantment in Tibetan Buddhism. She is also considered either an emanation of Tara or a transformation of Hevajra. The present figure is finely cast with the deity in a semi-peaceful appearance standing in a Dakini-pose and crushing the asura Rahu who devours the sun.

Compare with a similar gilt copper-alloy figure of Kurukulla, Tibet, 18th century, which was sold at Galerie Koller Zurich, 14-16 November 1987, lot 52. See also another closely related example, China, 18th century, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 17 September 2014, lot 459.

佛母一面三目四臂，衝冠，頭戴骷顱頭冠，頸戴五十顆人頭項鏈，身纏瓔珞，腕戴珠鐲。手執法器、弓箭（已佚）及蓮莖，蓮花隨蓮莖攀於肩頭，左腿鶴立於赤裸外道魔女心口，下承單瓣蓮臺，臺緣飾連珠一周，通體鎏金，髮冠、瓔珞嵌松石。智行佛母又稱作明佛母，是阿彌陀佛、般若佛母、多羅度母等的化身，其名字起源於印度。其造型一般為舞動之天女姿態，面孔半喜半嗔，半喜代表其圓滿清淨戒律的能力，半嗔代表降伏煩惱罪垢的能力。四臂各執優婆曇花所製成的弓、箭、鉤、索，象徵拯救陷於感情等所有煩惱困擾的眾生。

參看蘇黎士Galerie Koller公司曾售出類似的十八世紀西藏作明佛母像，1987年11月14-16日，拍品編號52。另見紐約蘇富比曾售出一件清十八世紀銅鎏金作明佛母像，2014年9月17日，拍品編號459。

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