Adam's FINE ASIAN ART Part I 28th & Part II 29th June 2022

66 100 FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF JUAN CARLOS KATZENSTEIN (1925-2018): A PROMINENT ARGENTINIAN DIPLOMAT (BY REPUTE) A GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRAKILAYA OR VAJRAKUMARA WITH HIS CONSORT IN YAB-YUM TIBETO CHINESE Heavy cast in two separate parts, the base with one lotus rank, and the sculpture itself. Gilded and with remains of polychromy. This bronze portrays Vajrasattva transformed into the three-headed wrathful deity Vajrakilaya, who has six arms, four legs and two wide outstretched wings. He is depicted standing in alidhasana in yab- yum with Dipta Chakra, both trampling two prostrate figures. His primary arms clasped around his consort. His wrathful faces with bulging eyes and wide opened mouths that are baring fangs and lolling tongues and surmounted by a crown of skulls. All over a lotus base with a beaded rim. Sealed with a likely later plaque centered by a vajra. H: 13,5 cm Weight: 980 grams Provenance: - a private collection; - Juan Carlos Katzenstein (1925-2018), an Argentinian Diplomat, who was an Ambassador in Beijing, China, from December 6, 1975 to January 2, 1978, and later to the Holy See (Vatican) and to the Sovereign Order of Malta from 1989 to 1991 (by repute). Note: In Tibetan Buddhism, Vajrakilaya is a wrathful heruka yidam deity who embodies the enlightened activity of all the Buddhas. His practice is known for being the most powerful for removing obstacles and destroying the forces hostile to compassion. Vajrakilaya is one of the eight deities of Kagyé. Vajrakilaya is a wrathful form of the Buddha Vajrasattva. His distinctive iconographic trait is that he holds the dagger called phurba or kīla. € 3,000 - 5,000 101 FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF JUAN CARLOS KATZENSTEIN (1925-2018): A PROMINENT ARGENTINIAN DIPLOMAT (BY REPUTE) A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF YAMĀNTAKA OR VAJRABHAIRAVA WITH CONSORT IN YAB-YUM TIBETO CHINESE Heavy cast, all gilted, with remains of polychromy. It consists of two parts, the base with two lotus bands and a frieze of pearls, and the sculpture itself. The seven-headed deity standing in alidhasana in yab-yum with Vajravetali, both trampling an array of prostate figures, his primary arms clasped around his consort, clad in a pendant belt and separately cast elephant skin on his back, further adorned with jewelry, his wrathful faces centered by a bull-head with open mouth, bared fangs, tongue and tall horns surmounted by a crown of skulls, she holding the vajra and skull cup, wearing a pendant belt and various jewels, her face with ferocious expression and long red hair surmounted with a tiara of skulls, all over a lotus base with beaded rim. H: 20,7 cm Weight: 2436 grams Provenance: - a private collection; - Juan Carlos Katzenstein (1925-2018), an Argentinian Diplomat, who was an Ambassador in Beijing, China, from December 6, 1975 to January 2, 1978, and later to the Holy See (Vatican) and to the Sovereign Order of Malta from 1989 to 1991 (by repute). Note: Yamāntaka is the ‘destroyer of death’ deity of Vajrayana Buddhism. Sometimes he is conceptualized as ‘conqueror of the lord of death’. Of the several deities in the Buddhist pantheon named ‘Yamāntaka’, the most well known, also called as ‘Vajrabhairava’ belongs to the Anuttarayoga Tantra class of deities popular within the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. € 4,000 - 6,000