STATUETTE DE VAJRAMALA EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRENÉPAL, VERS XE SIÈCLEHimalayan Art Resources item no. 144511.5 cm (4 1/2 in.) highProvenance: A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF VAJRAMALANEPAL, CIRCA 10TH CENTURY尼泊爾 約十世紀 金剛鬘銅像Vajramala is the personified form of a garland offering whose identification is discussed in reference to a Kashmiri figure with similarly outstretched hands in the Solomon Family Collection (Collecting Paradise, 2014, pp. 96-8, fig. 1.70). An almost identical Nepalese figure in the Musée Guimet, presently unidentified, is published in von Schroeder,Indo-Tibetan Bronzes 1981, p. 314, no 79B.Stylistically, the ovoid face and triangular crowns are connected to a number of Nepalese sculptures dated between the 8th and 11th centuries.pare the decorated lower garment and the beaded belt to that of an image of Avalokiteshvara and Manjushri in the Nyingjei Lam Collection (Weldon & Casey Singer, The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet, 1999, pp. 68 & 70, figs. 38 & 40). Also confirming the 9th/10th century dating of this rare figure is another 10th century standing image of Manjushri of similar rendering in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ().Provenance:Private European Collection