Property from a European Private CollectionA gilt-copper alloy figure of VajravahariDensatil monastery, Tibet, 15th centurythe goddess holding a karttrka aloft in her right hand and a kapala in her left, wearing bone jewellery, a long necklace of skulls and a billowing scarf, with a sow’s head appearing from behind her skull crown, dancing with right foot raised and trampling a supine figure on an elaborate lotus pedestalHimalayan Art Resources item no. 13869.Height 31.8 cm, 12½ in.__________________________________________________________________________Collection particulière européenne Statuette de Vajravahari en alliage de cuivre doré, monastère de Densatil, Tibet, XVe siècle__________________________________________________________________________歐洲私人收藏十五世紀 藏傳丹薩替寺鎏金銅合金金剛亥母像HAR編號13869来源: Galerie Deydier, Paris, 6th December 1994.__________________________________________________________________________戴克成藝廊，巴黎，1994年12月6日专文: The tang beneath the lotus pedestal was designed to secure the statue in its designated position on one of the tashi gomang stupas at Densatil monastery where multiple images of the goddess were placed around the upper tiers, as seen in photographs of the monastery taken in 1948, see Olaf Czaja and Adriana Proser, eds., Golden Visions of Densatil: A Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Asia Society, 2014, figs. 15, 35.