Details
- Title : AMITAYUS
- Year : 1844
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : Gilt-bronze
- Dimension : Height 10 1/4 in. (26 cm.)
- Accession No : GNM_LOT 101_PUN_06
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Collection : PUNDOLE’S
- Status : LIVE AUCTION The Art of the Himalayas from the Collection of Roshan Sabavala (M0009) (As per NOV 2021)
- ESTIMATED : ₹200,000 - ₹300,000
- SOLD : ₹420,000
- NOTE : Amitayus, the crowned and bejewelled Buddha of long life, holds the Amrita vase in his lap and is seated in vajraparyankasana on a throne supported by lions and surrounded by a leafy prabhamandala. An inscription on the back of the shrine commemorates the memory of the late Sri Tejabharo in this commission by his son, dedicated in Nepal Samvat 964 (1844). The construction of the shrine is typical of later Nepalese bronzes, compare with a Sukhavati Lokeshvara dated Nepal Samvat 938 (1817) in the Newark Museum collection, see Ulrich von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981, p. 392, pl. 108A.