A TIBETAN DISTEMPER ON CLOTH THANGKA OF "VAJRAYOGINI", EARLY...

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A TIBETAN DISTEMPER ON CLOTH THANGKA OF "VAJRAYOGINI", EARLY TO MID 20TH CENTURY

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The rectangular field painted to the centre with Vajrayogini striding in alidhasana over two slain figures on a star-shaped base, the figure enclosed by a flaming mandorla, her naked body adorned with a garland of human skulls, large hooped earrings and a diadem with further skulls, her left hand raised holding a blood-filled skull cup, kapala, her right hand with a flaying knife, kartrika, a khatvanga rests on her left shoulder, the tiered pavilion surmounted by a blue figure of the primordial Buddha Vajradhara, the mystical landscape of mountains and rainbows with further wrathful and protective deities, the whole within a silk brocade border
106cm long; 74cm wide

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Auction Date:
21st Nov 22 at 10am SAST
(21st Nov 22 8am BST)

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