DAKINI STATUETTE IN GOLDEN BRONZE
NEPAL, XVIth CENTURY
Represented dancing on a demon, resting on a lotiform base openwork, holding the Karttrika and the kapala , wearing a skirt made of bones and bells, a scarf on the shoulders floating from on either side of his arms, adorned with jewels, his face fierce, his long hair lacquered red, a tiara wrought on his head; old restoration to a ribbon of the skirt
Height: 18 cm. (7 in.)
Details
- Title : A GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF A DAKINI
- Classification : Sculpture
- Medium : Gilt Bronze
- Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
- Period : 16TH CENTURY
- Collection : Christies
- LOT : 377
- Post Lot Text : A GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF A DAKINI NEPAL, 16TH CENTURY
- Price realized : EUR 19,450
- Estimate : EUR 8,000 - EUR 12,000
- Origin : The Late Baron F. Rolin, Brussels.