COVERED MANUSCRIPT OF GOLDEN COPPER FRENCH
NEPAL, XIII CENTURY
The central rectangular panel very finely adorned with three images of Buddha in halos interspersed with two large lotus flowers on a background of foliage framed by a border of stylized petals and flames. The copper plate attached to a wooden core
D .: 21.5 x 69.5 cm. (8 ½ x 27 3/8 in.)
Details
- Title : COVER OF MANUSCRIPT COPPER GOLDEN COPPER
- Year : CIRCA 13TH CENTURY
- Classification : Manuscripts
- Medium : Gilt Copper
- Accession No : LOT 145
- Country/ Geo-location : NEPAL
- Collection : Christies
- Status : UPCOMING LOT FOR SALE IN CHRISTIE'S PARIS ( as mentioned on 05/12/2019)
- Estimate : EUR 12,000 - EUR 18,000 (USD 13,316 - USD 19,974)
- Origin : Christie's, Indian and Southeast Asian Art Including 20th Century Indian Paintings, New York, September 23, 2004, Lot 96.
- Post Lot Text : A GILT-COPPER REPELLENT MANUSCRIPT COVER NEPAL, CIRCA 13TH CENTURY
- Lot Essay : This manuscript cover, originally more imposing, has been modified to fit another manuscript. To compare with another copy whose original size has been rehabilitated, preserved at the Bayrische Staatsbibliothek of Munich. See in G. Grönbold, Tibetische Buchdeckel , Muenschen: Die Staatsbibliothek, 1991, ill. No. 32, p. 87. This cover was reduced in size by another manuscript; A later related and similarly reduced example is at the Bayrische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, see G. Grönbold, Tibetische Buchdeckel , 1991, cat. No. 32, ill. p. 87.