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