A GILT COPPER ALLOY REPOUSSÉ PANEL OF KUMARA OR KUMARI

Details

  • Title : A GILT COPPER ALLOY REPOUSSÉ PANEL OF KUMARA OR KUMARI
  • Year : CIRCA 18TH CENTURY
  • Classification : Sculpture
  • Medium : GILT COPPER ALLOY REPOUSSÉ
  • Dimension : 41.5 cm (16 3/8 in.) high
  • Accession No : GNM_LOT 18_BON_19
  • Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
  • Collection : Bonhams
  • Status : Online only : Sold for €1,912.50 inc. premium
  • Footnotes : The two peacocks underfoot identify this god or goddess as a form of 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.
  • Provenance : Private European Collection assembled in the 1960s and 1970s