Details
- Title : A GILT COPPER ALLOY REPOUSSÉ PLAQUE OF A HINDU DEITY, PROBABLY MAHESHVARI
- Year : CIRCA 17TH CENTURY
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : GILT COPPER ALLOY REPOUSSÉ
- Dimension : 20 cm (7 7/8 in.) high
- Accession No : GNM_LOT 16_BON_17
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Collection : Bonhams
- Status : Online only : Sold for €2,550 inc. premium / Himalayan Art Online Art Bouddhiste et Hindou de l'Himalaya Paris
- Footnotes : The pair of bulls underfoot suggest this Hindu deity is either a form of Shiva or his shakti Maheshvari. Though, the variety of representations in the religious art of Nepal are so varied, that the figure might also represent Yama, the guardian (dikapala) of the South. Consider the torana of the main entrance to the Taleju temple, Bhaktapur, published in Pal (ed.), Goddess Durga, Mumbai, 2009, p.101, no.7, as well as 17th-century stone sculptures of dikpalas published in von Schroeder, Nepalese Stone Sculpture, Vol.I, 2019, pp.602-3
- Provenance : Private European Collection assembled in the 1960s and 1970s