A Chinese Sino-Tibetan Qing Dynasty Gilt Bronze Buddha Figure of Hayagriva, Secret Accomplishment (Tibetan: tam drink sang drop. English: Horse Neck, Secret Accomplishment), wrathful tutelary deity of the Lotus family.
King of the Wrathful, Hayagriva, with three faces and six hands. Each face has three eyes, radiant, with bared fangs. The hair, moustache and beard are blazing in red. At the crest of the three faces are three horse heads with mouths sounding with the neighing of horses. Having a crown of five dry human skulls and a necklace of fifty fresh, wearing an upper garment of human skin and an elephant hide, and a lower garment of tiger skin; with a Brahman cord of human hair. Adorned with drops of blood, clots of mold, bunches of charnel ashes and coils of snakes. The eight legs trample upon the eight great nagas in the aspect of snakes; standing in the vast blazing fire of pristine awareness. (Tread Lingpa Gyurme Dorje (1646-1714) and Min-ling Lochen Dharmashri 1654-1718. Tibetan source text 'dod 'jo bum bzang, Part I, page 247-248). Extensive trace of gilt and red pigment on the hair. The underside of the statue shows a rectangular cut-out, a precisely fitting bronze comes with the sculpture. The base with incised Quatre-foil flori-form petals visvavajra mark surrounded the centralized DaiJi.


Dimensions: 7" H

Excellent condition, with normal anomalies in nature, sign of stressed surface, minor scratch & dent. Surface traced wear and or declined to gilding. Normal, considering ages and wears.
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