A GILT COPPER ALLOY REPOUSSÉ PLAQUE OF DURGA MAHISHASURAMARDINI

Details

  • Title : A GILT COPPER ALLOY REPOUSSÉ PLAQUE OF DURGA MAHISHASURAMARDINI
  • Year : 17TH/18TH CENTURY
  • Classification : Sculpture
  • Medium : GILT COPPER ALLOY REPOUSSÉ
  • Dimension : 33 cm (13 in.) high
  • Accession No : GNM_LOT 15_BON_16
  • Country/ Geo-location : Nepal
  • Collection : Bonhams
  • Status : Online only : Sold for €4,080 inc. premium / Himalayan Art Online Art Bouddhiste et Hindou de l'Himalaya Paris
  • Footnotes : Another Nepalese gilt repoussé plaque depicting the goddess Durga slaying the buffalo-demon Mahisha was sold at Bonhams, New York, 13 March 2017, lot 3050. Stylistically, a large figure of Padmanartteshvara, dated 1724 CE, has a similarly slender figural type covered by sheer garments (Bonhams, Hong Kong, 29 November 2016, lot 135). Also, compare a related panel of Ganesha formerly in the Alsdorf Collection (Pal, A Collecting Odyssey, 1997, no.67, p.58).
  • Provenance : Private European Collection assembled in the 1960s and 1970s