Buddhist Deity

15th century

17.6 cm 21.4 cm 12 cm

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This Buddhist deity holds a bell, symbolic of wisdom, and a flaming wheel, symbolic of the Buddhist teachings. His crown, which terminates in a "vajra"—the multipronged ritual scepter of the tantric Buddhist traditions—resembles the type of headdress worn by Nepali images of t...

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22413
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William H. Wolf, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; purchased by John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, 1972.
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en
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8
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