Details
- Title : A GILT COPPER ALLOY REPOUSSÉ PLAQUE OF KUMARA OR KUMARI
- Year : CIRCA 17TH CENTURY
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : GILT COPPER ALLOY REPOUSSÉ
- Dimension : 27 cm (10 5/8 in.) high
- Accession No : GNM_LOT 17_BON_18
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Collection : Bonhams
- Status : Online only : Sold for €1,912.50 inc. premium / Himalayan Art Online Art Bouddhiste et Hindou de l'Himalaya Paris
- Footnotes : The two peacocks underfoot identify this god or goddess as Kumara (a.k.a. Skanda or Kartikeya) or his shakti - the source of his power - Kumari, who is one of the popular Mother Goddesses in Nepal. See 17th-/18th-century stone sculptures of Kumara and Kumari published in von Schroeder, Nepalese Stone Sculpture, Vol.I, 2019, nos.211A & 249A, respectively. A related repousse panel from the Paul F. Walter Collection, sold Bonhams, New York, 19 March 2012, lot 1095.
- Provenance : Private European Collection assembled in the 1960s and 1970s