清晚期 銅局部鎏金金剛瑜伽母立像 having a curved torso and gazing upwards, posing in alidhasana; holding a skull cup in her left hand raised towards the sky and a dagger in her left, minimally adorned in a skull tiara, standing atop two victims further raised upon a lotus base and encircled by a ring of flames.
Height 7 3/4 in., 19.7 cm.
Property from the Estate of W.M. Bogdanowicz, Naples, Florida
Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.
