STATUE OF VASUDHARA IN GOLDEN BRONZE
NEPAL, XIV CENTURY
Represented seated in lalitasana, the main hands holding a lotus bud and a vase, the four others holding ears of wheat and a manuscript, adorned with jewels, serene face, wearing an encrusted crown
Height: 16.8 cm. (6 5/8 in.)
Details
- Title : A FINE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VASUDHARA
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : Gilt Bronze
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Period : 14TH CENTURY
- Collection : Christies
- LOT : 391
- Post Lot Text : A FINE GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VASUDHARA NEPAL, 14TH CENTURY
- Lot Essay : Vasudhara is the Buddhist goddess of wealth and prosperity. Her gestures of charity and adoration of the Buddha and the waterpot and sheaf of grain that she holds are all signifiers of fecundity. See a comparable example sold by Christie's New York, 21 March 2012, lot 792
- Price realised : EUR 46,600
- Estimate : EUR 30,000 - EUR 40,000
- Provenance : Formerly the property of a Dutch private collector, acquired between the 1970's and the 1990's in The Netherlands, and bought from him by the present private collector in 1995, The Hague
- Literature : Hugo Kreijger, Godenbeelden uit Tibet, SDU Uitgeverij, Den Haag, 1989, p. 86
- Exhibited : Goden en goeroe's, Museum voor Volkenkunde, Rotterdam, 17 June - 28 November 1989