Cakrasaṃvara and Vajravārāhī

Unknown (Nepalese)

Item type:

sculpture

Date of creation:

19th century

Height:

17.0 cm  (6 11/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

partially gilded copper alloy, pigments and pate de verre beads

Description

The thin narrow figure, almost in a dancing position, apprears to have four heads and twelve arms; with the central ones, he hold his sexual partner in a tantric embrace, holding the vajra and the ghanta between the crossed hands at the level of the wrist; his hair is adorned with a crescent scythe similar to that of the followers of Shiva.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Ghanta [2403]

Bibliographic references

Santarelli, Cristina. "Tibetan art collection at the Museo d'Arte Orientale, Turin", Music in Art 34/1-2 (2009) 337-345.

RIdIM record id

3152